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Let’s Stop Apologizing for Our Creative Work
As parent writers, we can often feel like we have to apologize for the work we do. Because work is taking us away from our children and our families, and it’s cutting into the time that we might spend together, and it’s distracting us from the thing we’re supposed to...
How to Know You’re a Writer: Just Do the Work
It’s not easy to call ourselves what we really are: writer. Mostly because there are so many things we think we have to do first. We have to get a book deal, with a large publisher. We have to get a thousand or ten thousand followers. We have to make it to a...
How Do I Do It All? I Don’t.
The most asked question I get when I tell people I'm an author who is also the mom of six children is this: "How do you do it all?" [Tweet "The important truth we have to learn when we’re writers who are parents: We can’t do it all."] I mean, we can try. But we’re...
How to Collect Stories From an Everyday Life
We have such a vault of stories as parents. Every day we are interacting with our kids, and we are listening in on conversations, and we are growing more and more as storytellers, because we get to be immersed in stories all the time. I only have to take a look around...
On Vulnerability and Telling the Truth as a Writer
Writing, at the very heart of it, is a bearing witness to the events of a life, to the thoughts of a writer, to the struggles and setbacks and the hopes and dreams of humanity. That’s why it’s important to tell the truth in our writing. We look around our world today,...
On the Need to Produce Perfect Art
[Tweet "One of the worst enemies of a writer is the need to produce perfect art."] Of course we want to produce perfect art. It is, after all, what we’re sending out into the world, and we can’t just send something out that has glaring mistakes and smells of poor...
On Getting Started as a Parent Writer
One of the most difficult parts of being a parent writer is getting started. Our kids demand so much time. When they’re young, they require supervision at all times, and they need things constantly, and they demand attention at every turn. The only break in sight,...
Write a GREAT Book Even When Your Time is Limited
