Confession: editing makes me grumpy. Or, at least according to my fourteen-year-old’s “accidental” Christmas gift to me. Okay, perhaps I need to back up and explain myself. Here’s what happened… First of all, I’ve come to know that I love deep work. I loathe distractions. This became even more evident
Read MoreWhen I was young, I was obsessed with the notion of seeing through other people’s eyes. Literally. I wondered how others saw the world. Did they see colors in the same way I did? What if blue to them looked different than it did to me? I wanted to find
Read MoreMy dad loved taking the scenic route. We could never call it a “short cut” because his deviations always took longer than the conventional ones. You see, as a lumberjack who worked all over the state of Indiana, he knew the backroads and cut throughs. Sometimes he diverted off the
Read MoreSome of the worst writing advice I ever heard came from an author I admired. While leading a writing workshop, a woman asked him, “What advice can you give to someone who wants to write books?” His answer went something like: Find a cabin in the woods and get away
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