Embracing Your First Draft

Some time ago, I posted some Twitter encouragement for writing shitty first drafts. The response was, well, surprising.     I didn’t expect it to resonate quite as strongly as it did. I believed everyone had read Anne Lamott and knew the importance of shitty first drafts. But perhaps they believed that shitty first drafts […]

Kinder, Gentler Resolutions

Happy New Year!   Did you make a resolution for 2019? Do you normally make resolutions?   I used to love making resolutions. I’d spent a good chunk of December thinking through what I wanted for the new year, and what I wanted to leave behind. I always had a lot of hope for those […]