Finding Words #254
The journey to write a novel is often a very long one and along the way, all authors have moments in which their words and their creativity stagnate. In fact, the longer that they find themselves in a place of inaction, the harder it is to move from what has become...
Move the Plot #253
When we don't know ourselves well enough as the main characters in our personal stories and we become polarized about only one of our details, we fall into what is known as one-dimensional thinking where a particular part becomes what we believe defines us. In a way...
Where Will You be Tomorrow? #252
Do you think that you would have acted differently in your life if the process of "living through your feelings" entailed only what can be found on an easy trail where the sun is always shining, and blooms are in abundance and there are no rocks to trip you? Or what...
Life is Easy #251
Imagine yourself at the beginning of a trail that looks like it will be effortless because in the distance you can see the sunlight streaming through the trees, that the edges of the path are lined with small grasses as well as blooms, and that the walkway is level as...
A Little and A Lot #250
The longer we experience something that is painful, the closer it stays to us in our hearts and our minds making even an event from years ago feel like it happened yesterday. Its then hard for us to imagine what we would look like beyond the place that we have found...
There’s a Dragon #249
Throughout the history of literature, there has been no better villains in both spoken and written tales than the dragons who were powerful enough to wreak havoc in the lives of all living things and to prevent the completion of heroic journeys. Every single one of...