Pick up a pen or launch the Notes app on your phone and start writing. No pressure, no deadlines, no standards to follow but yours, no rules to…
Amanda Pavlov is an author, stand-up comic, voracious reader and mom whose debut YA novel, Mind Like A Diamond, came out in December. We talked about…
I too did all I did with the best of intentions.
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One day at a time.

February 2023

I am here to enjoy every minute, every opportunity to make this life of mine one worthy of the privilege that it is to be present, and to be healthy…
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Hello, and welcome to the monthly edition of Texting With a Writer, where I share with you text messages I’ve exchanged with fellow writers about the…
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the words I write exist to register life so that it endures as the clock ticks, and the seconds and minutes and hours and days and years add up, and the…
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January 2023

A choice I make because I have to is a choice that could make what comes next easier, like the choice to conclude an urgent (and annoying) task so that…
You can touch your work every day. There’s time if you make time for it. Writing is personal, so touching your work is making time for yourself.
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Asking for help when words don't come.
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As Anne Lamott wrote in Bird by Bird, "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they…
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May you always be open to seeing and embracing the beauty that surrounds you.
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