I am often accused of being happy. “You’re the most consistently happy person I know,” commented one friend on a smiling winter photo of me. “Depression usually follows a layoff … but you’re special,” said another when the magazine I had worked at for 7 years folded. It’s true. I am incredibly, ridiculously, genuinely happy,…
This month I’m participating in the A to Z Challenge, blogging every day of the month of April, except Sundays, on a topic from A to Z. I’m posting short-form topics meant to get you talking and sharing! Join the discussion in the comments. Ah, overwhelm. I don’t know about you, dear blog readers,…
This month I’m participating in the A to Z Challenge, blogging every day of the month of April, except Sundays, on a topic from A to Z. I’m posting short-form topics meant to get you talking and sharing! Join the discussion in the comments. I’ve started reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron at the suggestion…
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Welcome to Tuesday Truths! If you’re new to Spunky Misfit Girl, welcome. Find sign up box below. And, as always, much love to my super supporters and amazing audience. Hope you enjoy my video-self with her dorky over-enthusiasm and please don’t make fun of me more than is absolutely necessary. Enjoy! The Ghosts of Tupelo…
If just the thought of editing makes you want to start pulling your hair out, I understand. I don’t think I know a single writer who likes editing. It’s excruciating. And it doesn’t really get better. Actually, the more you do it, the worse it gets. But everybody needs it. Recently a book marketing guy…
Have you ever reduced your life to one project that meant the world to you? That spoke to your heart, that you were fully dedicated to finishing and doing well? That you tuned in to your deepest sense of discipline for? If you have, try to remember what that felt like. (If you haven’t, envision…
Writers often answer the question “Why do you write?” with “Because I have to.” I get that. If I go too many days without writing, I become cranky and snappish and uncomfortable with myself. No one wants to live with me in that state, not even me. Best if I sequester myself in a quiet warm…
If you haven’t read Part 1 of this series yet, go do that here: How to Become a Better Writer When Writing Makes You Want to Die, Part 1. That’s a big deal. And it’s hard. And people don’t talk about how much difference it makes when you can do that. Today’s way to become…