Philosophy Friday

GOOD VIEW















GOOD STUFF
My CP Lisa is off to Fiji tomorrow for vacation
I booked my family's airfare to Tuscany for July
There are 12 bids for my Diabetes Auction gift
Imaginary rejection letters by famous authors
A secret vice- snarky comments about celebrity fashion

GOOD ADVICE

"The key to managing our writing fear, our 'page fright', is craft... Fear keeps you in the here and now. So stay in touch with it and keep slogging up the mountain... Killing off the 'inner critic' won't work; it isn't even desirable. It's part of who you are, a necessary part... The same inner critic that judges our work so severely [also] provides us with the ability to discern our likes and dislikes, to form opinions, to make decisions. It allows us to choose this rather than that... If we approach out inner critic from that perspective, we can coexist with it... This has always been the artist's struggle, what Rollo May calls 'the courage to create'. Or to put it bluntly: You're a wrier. Which means, you're your own worst critic. Live with it."
-Dennis Palumbo, WRITING FROM THE INSIDE OUT