By Carol Grannick on March 29, 2010
I was honored to guest post this week at Meredith Resnick’s Writers’ Inner Journey. If you mosey on over to check out the post on “Letting In The Light: Overcoming Negative Self-Talk”, I encourage you to dive into the site’s wonderful explorations of creativity. Meredith’s interviews are concise and perceptive, probing authors’ and writing professionals’ [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged negative self-talk
By Carol Grannick on March 23, 2010
When writers share their struggles with staying resilient and persevering on the writing journey, it helps us all. This is the first of The Irrepressible Writer interviews with writers published, unpublished, known and unknown.
Here, a Houston-based critique group, Will Write For Cake generously shares their thoughts, feelings, struggles and tools for maintaining resilience. First, meet [...]
Posted in Interviews: Resilience At Work | Tagged critique groups, writers' resilience
By Carol Grannick on March 7, 2010
The most frequent way I decrease negativity that’s beginning to feel inappropriate or unproductive is by disputing negative thoughts, because most often, they are incorrect. Of course, it’s always important to remember that negative emotions are perfectly appropriate for many situations; it’s when they feel inappropriate, prolonged and damaging to your energy, productivity and creativity [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It | Tagged negative self-talk, negative thoughts
By Carol Grannick on March 3, 2010
At #kidlitchat on Twitter Tuesday night, March 2, @gregpincus and @bonnieadamson (facilitators of the weekly chat) asked what book or books had inspired us to begin writing for children.
We began on track, then (not unproductively) veered over into books we loved, books that had had impact on us.
I said that, at least on a conscious [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged Dr. Seuss
