Life can be the ultimate teacher. — When I was young, my dad took my sister and me to a swimming hole in Glen Ellen, CA while my mom stayed home with our toddler sister. Once we’d had our fill, my sister and I stayed in just our swimming suits as we traveled the windy road back…

Because we were all beginners once. — Back in 2019, I wrote my very first article here on Medium. I had no idea what I was doing, but I felt so passionate about the subject, I wanted to share it with a wider audience. I’d been reading articles here for a while, so I had an idea…

Let’s get you back into your flow. — When the project you’re working on just isn’t flowing the way you want it to, you may need to step away from it for a moment. But don’t just stop writing. Writing prompts are an excellent way to get your mind unblocked and encourage creativity once again. Here are a…

Tim Denning’s list is fine, but I think it’s incomplete. — Tim Denning posted a crowdsourced story about things you need for a better life, with ideas people shared on Twitter. You can read it below: Here Are the Cheat Codes to a Better Life Crowdsourced from the internetbetterhumans.pub TLDR: The list includes pursuing your goals in private, a spouse/partner, a dog or cat, daily writing, surrounding yourself with people you admire, doing with…

Reading about imperfection makes us realize we’re not alone. — When I first started writing, I was naive enough to think that all I had to do was write. I could live in my own self-obsessed world and write about me, me, me and the world would come running to read all the brilliance I put on the page. Boy…

Hate to break it to you. — When I first started writing, I thought I had something to say and people wanted to listen. I felt it was my duty to share my thoughts because it was a benefit to the world. I thought everything I wrote was original, never before uttered, a completely new idea. Boy…

Feeling sluggish with your writing? Same. — I’m going through a bit of a drought in my writing life. I just published a book a few months ago, which was exciting after a two-year hiatus in the publishing world. And after every book I publish, I tend to experience an energy slump that lasts a month or…

This saved my writing life. — Writing books is not my only source of income. Okay, who am I kidding? It hasn’t quite reached the status of “income” yet. But it does take up a huge part of my time. After all, I love writing. I breathe writing. I’ve been writing ever since I learned how…

…and how you can avoid it. — The other evening, I was reading a book that inspired intense epiphanies in me, and I felt the urge to stop reading and write them down. Do you know what I did? I kept reading. I figured I’d remember these epiphanies later, and could write about them when the timing…