Writer’s Block

Curious reader of my blog, this week I’ll be shamelessly republishing some of my best posts from last year. If you haven’t read them already, now is the time to make amends.

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Woman writing

You want to write but don’t know what to write next. You sigh and hang your head and begin to have doubts about your vocation. All of us who are trying to make friends with the pen and paper have experienced writer’s block at one time or another. But is it really a bad thing?

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How Many Books Have You Read This Year?

At the end of the year, everyone's counting something... businesspersons their profits, sportsmen their trophies, photographers their photos, musicians their songs, painters their paintings, and so on. Us literary persons must count the books we've read (for alas, counting the ones we wrote wouldn't take too long). This year I haven’t read that many paperbacks, … Continue reading How Many Books Have You Read This Year?

Have You Ever Done Things You Had Not Decided To Do?

"Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do... I don't mean to say that thinking and reaching decisions have no influence on behavior. But behavior does not merely enact whatever has already been thought through and decided. It has its own sources, and is my behaviour, quite independently, … Continue reading Have You Ever Done Things You Had Not Decided To Do?