Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you). “Here Comes the Sun – Abbey Road” was written by George Harrison in the spring of 1969 and appeared on the Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Background “. . . ‘Here Comes the Sun’ was an expression of delight at bring able to slip away […]
Archives for March 2011
The Calling to Write
In his sub-chapter “Refusal of the Call (The Reluctant Hero) Christopher Vogler writes: “This one is about fear. Often at this point the hero balks at the threshold of adventure, Refusing the Call or expressing reluctance. After all, she is facing the greatest of all fears, terror of the unknown. The hero has not yet […]
Your True Voices
“Absolute vulnerability means opening yourself up. Perhaps a better way of phrasing it is letting things go. You let your masks go. Your suits of armor. Your persona of who you think you ought to be, or who you think others believe you to be” (The Writing Warrior: Discovering the Courage to Free Your True […]
A Question of Heart
“A gifted young woman writes a poem. It is rejected. She does not write another for perhaps two years, perhaps all her life” (If You Want To Write by Brenda Ueland, p.8). Are all writers this sensitive? Maybe. Maybe not. Is this even the right question to be asking? One answer that Ueland has for […]