Motivational Mondays

  • What to do When You Feel Stuck | Motivation for Writers

    To say that 2025 has been a mentally taxing year would be something of an understatement. Actually, 2025 has been a mentally taxing decade and that we still have three months left of it is not especially helpful. Looking back thus far on my year it’s hard to believe that this is the same year…

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  • 34 Things I’ve Learned about Writing (for my 34th Birthday)

    Today officially marks my 34th birthday, and I decided that it might be fun to compile 34 things I’ve learned (mostly about writing) in honor of my 34th birthday. Some of these things will be just things I’ve learned generally about life and myself. Much of my 20s (and for that matter much of my…

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  • Getting Lost in the Weeds

    Getting Lost in the Weeds

    Over the course of my life I have had a great deal of friends who were writers like myself. We all have different styles of writing, different preferred genres, and crucially, different styles of how we planned (or in my case at the time, didn’t) our stories. One of my friends in particular in my…

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  • The Importance of Hobbies Outside of Writing

    I have often felt that writing is the one thing that I would want to do if I could do nothing else in the entire world. A sort of, if you were trapped on a desert island and could only bring several things what would you bring scenario. Writing is what sustains me, it fuels…

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  • the Importance of Rest as a Writer

    I have always been driven and ambitious. I’ve always known what I wanted to do with my life and what I wanted to accomplish. As such for a long time now rest has always been something of a vague concept for me. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with a single mother who I always…

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