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Emotional Life Of Writers
Building and maintaining resilience for your writing life.
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 Emotional Life Of Writers | Tagged Dr. Seuss
By Carol Grannick on February 8, 2010
The first post in my series on how to handle jealousy with positivity encourages you to accept the feeling as natural and normal. For some of you, that will help jealousy pass.
For others of you, the feeling will stay uncomfortable and inconvenient, putting a roadblock in the way of your own writing.
You may have noticed [...]
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, jealousy | Tagged jealousy, writers' jealousy
By Carol Grannick on February 2, 2010
Jealousy propels us into negativity and drains energy, productivity and creativity. Jealousy focuses our energy on who we aren’t or can’t be, and inhibits us from being and becoming the writers we are and can be.
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, jealousy, Learned Optimism | Tagged jealousy
By Carol Grannick on January 29, 2010
I noticed yesterday morning, recycling and garbage day in my neighborhood, that we had about one-third of our usual toss.
And because the idea of a post on The Irrepressible Writer came to mind, I trusted that what I’d noticed about our effort to decrease our garbage must have something to do with positivity and the [...]
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, Positivity for Writers, Resilient Writers | Tagged positivity, resilience
By Carol Grannick on January 26, 2010
What if when you have negative thoughts you aren’t just depressed or depleted…What if you’re wrong?
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, Learned Optimism, Positivity for Writers | Tagged Edward de Bono, negative thoughts, writers
By Carol Grannick on January 7, 2010
I have a choice to think one way or the other. The positive choice energizes me to blog, write and enjoy the day inside.
That choice – and learning how to make and benefit from that choice in an ongoing way – is what The Irrepressible Writer is all about.
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, Learned Optimism, Positivity for Writers, Resilient Writers, The Writing Life, Uncategorized | Tagged Learned Optimism, positive emotions, positivity, writers' obstacles, writers' resilience
By Carol Grannick on December 28, 2009
In the spirit of end-of-year reminiscence and thoughtful self-assessment, I realized yesterday that my closet held beautiful, exotic clothing that I’ve collected over several decades. Clothing that is lovely to look at, but clothing I don’t wear, or am uncomfortable in when I do.
The clothes don’t belong in my closet. Not because I don’t [...]
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, Learned Optimism, Positivity for Writers, The Writing Life | Tagged Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, positive attitude, writer's block
By Carol Grannick on December 25, 2009
One of the helpful aspects of The Irrepressible Writer workshops is the ability to see and hear other writers in the group learn to dispute their ‘pessimistic explanatory style‘. This post will bring part of that experience to you.
WARNING: It’s a long post (under 1000 words), but if I split it up into multiple posts, [...]
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, Learned Optimism, rejection | Tagged disputing thoughts, Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman
By Carol Grannick on December 21, 2009
You don’t need me to tell you that as a writer, you’re not supposed to take rejections personally. You’re supposed to get past them and get back to writing. You’re supposed to…
You get the idea. And you know the idea.
Lots of fabulous writers’ sites provide encouragement to learn from rejections and move on – move [...]
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, rejection, Resilient Writers, The Writing Life | Tagged resilience, writers' rejection
By Carol Grannick on December 15, 2009
I work at home in both of my professions, clinical social work and writing, with a comfortable office in which I see clients and groups, and a desk adjacent to the kitchen where my computer sits, and where I enter handwritten work, edit, blog…and make lists.
Not electronic lists. Lists on index cards.
I love lists. They calm me. They give [...]
Posted in Emotional Life Of Writers, Resilient Writers, The Writing Life | Tagged Time to write
