In her now-classic book for writers Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott writes, “… whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. The cosmic banana peel is suddenly going to appear underfoot to make sure you don’t take it all too seriously, that you don’t fill up on junk […]

Question: I’m so impressed that despite having a baby and being a full-time mom, you’ve still managed your business so well. Do write more about how you set up your day to make it all work. I hope to learn and to apply some of this to my life. Thanks! I should mention right away […]

The other day, I was watching a TED talk by Chimamanda Adichie (“The danger of a single story“) in which she talks about how, as a new writer, she was trying to ape the Western writers she’d read growing up. She mentioned how her stories always, always, had characters drinking ginger beer, something she’d never […]

So let me tell you what I know now that I didn’t know seven years and 256 articles ago. Here’s a lesson learned for every year in the business. I know that every word you write makes you better, even if it doesn’t feel like that when you’re doing it. I know that when you […]