Some Thoughts on Ego
Six days in a hospital ward being treated for a near-fatal illness taught me a few things, and the most major ones were completely...
How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part 7
We’re approaching the business of writing as though it were a business, expected to generate a profit for you, the writer. You can, of...
Dealing with Stress, Part 6
The human mind was made to compute answers for the human being, and most of the time it does a pretty good job for most people. When...
Dealing with Stress, Part 5
Stress is defined normally as ‘a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.’ We’re...
Dealing with Stress, Part 4
Between Immersion, where you and the stress you’re experiencing seem like one giant, painful mass, and Fixed Orbit, in which you have...
Dealing with Stress, Part 3
We’ve been looking at a ladder or pathway out of stress, leading from the depths of anxiety all the way up to total freedom from it. But...
Dealing with Stress Part 2
We are moving forward on the basis that the best approach to dealing with stress is not to plunge into it but to step back from it...
Dealing with Stress, Part 1
As writers and as human beings, we all have to deal with stress. I offer these thoughts and observations as someone who has occupied...