By Carol Grannick on October 28, 2010
Sometimes you have to trade one kind of positivity to get even more of another.
In the writing life, that can mean putting aside a manuscript you’d love to keep working on because you’ll have a fresher, probably stronger, perspective for the “re-visioning” to come.
In the first years of writing for children I didn’t have [...]
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By Carol Grannick on October 20, 2010
I’m in the rhythm of a changing season, the cycle of the moon, the ebb and flow of life.
It’s been almost a year since I created The Irrepressible Writer, a site to help writers build and maintain psychological resilience. In the past couple of months I’ve wondered if I have much left to say, since [...]
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By Carol Grannick on October 6, 2010
Last weekend I had a long, mutually empathic conversation with a visual artist friend. She said, and I agreed, that it felt good to talk with someone who didn’t ask, “So have you sold anything yet?”
I told her about my Michelangelo’s Advice blog post, and the experience of walking down the hallway of the Accademia [...]
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