When I was in grad school for playwriting, I was very competitive internally with the other writers. For no reason, they were nice, polite, happy writers, and I’m still friends with them. But I wanted to be the best, and I knew I wasn’t, and it was frustrating. There was one time…
Read MoreMy writer’s group, Ellipses, meets every single Friday morning 8-10 am on Zoom. It was my week. I totally forgot. I’d uploaded a rough draft of my article earlier and forgot about it, and then I totally slept through our Zoom call, and missed my own writer’s group that I started and that I lead every Friday morning, when I was my turn to go.
Read MoreWriting gives me extreme anxiety, and it never goes away. I will do anything to avoid writing… The only cure is to sit down, turn everything else off and do it. Here are the things I do to overcome anxiety and get my butt in the chair.
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