By Carol Grannick on November 25, 2010
This Thanksgiving week, I read two wonderful columns that talk about gratitude in different, yet linked ways.
For those of us who are always on the journey to create serious positivity, gratitude is considered to be a mainstay.
So here’s Mary Schmich from the Chicago Tribune and Robert Wright from the New York Times. They’ve both said [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged gratitude
By Carol Grannick on November 18, 2010
I’m “re-visioning” a middle grade novel that is very close to my heart, and it’s feeling lovely. Of course I wish I could finish it quickly. Of course I know I shouldn’t, and can’t.
The other day on a visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Zig-Zag Bridge joining the mainland to the Japanese Island validated [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged revision, Transitions
By Carol Grannick on November 9, 2010
Speaking of transitions, which I did last week, every time you want to begin writing, you go through a mini-transition. For lots of writers, getting started each day can be hard.
Do you ever feel like you need a forklift to hoist yourself into your writing “place”?
Meredith Resnick of the Writers Inner Journey, talks about moving [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged Writers' transitions
By Carol Grannick on November 4, 2010
I’ve blogged here about how transitions can be difficult periods.
Still, they’re not fun, so I keep forgetting that I always seem to need them.
Take my current transition between planning a revision and actually beginning the writing. It was like starting an old, faithful car in a Chicago winter that had been standing unused for a [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged Transitions, Writing
By Carol Grannick on November 2, 2010
Elizabeth Bernstein’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “I’m Very, Very, Very Sorry…Really?” has powerful applications to your life as a resilient writer.
When you find yourself in the middle of a downward spiral of negativity and you don’t know how you got there, the best – albeit a little goofy-sounding – solution is to [...]
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