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Just Bloom!

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

While it can sometimes be a helpful motivator to indulge in a bit of friendly professional competition, I find it generally unproductive to worry too much about who is doing what in the world of writing (and why I am not, who is ahead of me, what have they done lately, that sort of thing). What a lot of wasted energy. I’d rather use it to make something fun.

In case you need this reminder today!

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” ― Koshin Ogui

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Stay On the Path

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »

“To cultivate hope, people need three things, [Jamil Zaki, director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab] said: They first need to be able to envision a better future, either personally or collectively. Second, they need the willpower or motivation to move toward that future. And third, they must be able to chart “a path from where they are to where they want to be.” — Jamil Zaki, quoted in The Morning

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For Muscles and Minds

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »

“Growth starts where comfort ends.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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For the Better

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , on July 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Celebrations are fun, and we have another cluster of birthdays around now. That has me thinking about the passage of time, and how change happens even when you don’t notice it. Am I the same person I was twenty years ago? I am not. 

Hopefully that’s a good thing!

“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”

— David Bowie

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Better than Ever

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on May 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

— Ken Venturi

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Start Today

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Note to self:

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” 

— Karen Lamb, author

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Today’s Motivation

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“The more shots you get at the target, the more likely you’ll eventually score a bull’s-eye, but the more misses you’ll accrue as well. The bull’s-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don’t make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us.”

― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius

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Writer, Know Thyself

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on July 30, 2023| 1 Comment »

Some days you just don’t wanna, you know? On such days, it helps to rely on the motivating power of a streak. 

I’ve written daily posts here since January 1, 2021. That’s not a lot of time compared to some writers (Dean Wesley Smith and John Scalzi, I’m looking at you), but it’s long enough that I don’t want to break it for no good reason.

So here I am, writing and posting, even though I’d rather be chilling with Chewbacca and Mr Man.*

Which is exactly why I started this streak in the first place:)

* Now that’s an excellent band name.

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Action Is Hope

Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.

— Ray Bradbury

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A portrait of productivity. Photo by ModCatShop on Unsplash

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Time Travel. It’s a Thing.

Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Exactly one year ago today I decided to do a little time travel. You may remember I mentioned a site called FutureMe, an easy and fun (and free) way to write yourself a letter to be delivered at some time in the future. 

My letter arrived this morning, delivering a boost from NaNoWriMos past.

Thanks, Past Me, I will.

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