My Worst F Word It’s time to talk about the worst F word around — failure. Failure nurtures fear like nothing else for me, and I suspect I am in a majority. Success is great. Failure sucks. We all want things to work, right? Failure means it doesn’t. Who wants …
I have lots of ideas for topics on this blog. Some I start writing and intend to complete, but things happen during and after the initial writing that put obstacles in my way. One problem is I get even more ideas as I write, sometimes wandering off on those tangents …
This was going to be a list of all podcasts in my player, but that’s too many. I needed an easier post …
The Writing Experiment: Third Report will be the last in this series for a while, because… I’m calling the experiment a success! …
I’ve used rewards for goals in the past to satisfying effect. When I heard rewards work well for Questioners (from Gretchen Rubin‘s The …
Maybe it sounds a little crazy when I claim minimalism helps writing. If you follow my Facebook page, you may have wondered …
The thing about experiments, and most things in life, is that learning happens most from failure. While I haven’t fallen flat on …
While I failed to set up my writing experiment like a true scientific experiment, I will still report findings. Don’t expect much …
I planned to get a lot of reading done yesterday. Instead I caught up on Top Chef and Doctor Who and then …
As I feared, grocery shopping took forever yesterday and wore me out. The meme about getting takeout from being too tired from …