By Milli Thornton A MEMORY from when my daughter was a toddler (she’s now almost 28) kept calling to me. For some reason, I had scribbled it into the notebook I keep next to me for capturing ideas to blog about. I have several blogs and it was definitely recorded in the section for the…
Category Archives: claiming writerhood
The Golden Gift of Touching One Reader
By Milli Thornton SOMETHING HAPPENED recently to remind me that touching even one reader has a value that cannot be measured. A reader on a recent post, A Week of Taking Action, said she was so inspired by what I’d written she was going to do an “Afternoon of Taking Action” starting right that very…
Spider Totem: Creativity and Weaver of Fate
By Milli Thornton In a post earlier this month, Writing for the End of the World, I decided to use talk of 2012 being the end of the world as a way to explore what I would do if this really was the last year of my life. I said: All I know is that…
Inner Kid and Igor Converse About Writing
By Milli Thornton INNER KID: Good morning! I’m planning to just stretch myself out, relax and enjoy this day. What are your thoughts on the matter? (As if I didn’t already know. . . .) EGO: Well, it’s a 10K Day. That’s 10,000 words. We’re going to have to be disciplined, organized and work hard…
Writing and Singing – What’s the Diff?
By Milli Thornton SOMETIMES WHEN I’M feeling overwhelmed by my workload, or when I’m feeling sleep deprived, I’ll have one of those horrible existential moments when my life—and my writing—feels meaningless. That’s always when my dinosaur brain comes up with some really supportive self-talk for my writing, such as, “What’s the point of working this…
The Ways We Fraud Ourselves (Especially Writers?!)
By guest blogger Sandra Williams After reading Do You Suffer from Impostor Syndrome? on my friend Julia Munroe Martin’s writing blog, wordsxo, I decided to pull this post out of the archives from 2008. Because whenever we’re feeling this way, we’re apt to believe that we’re the only one. — Milli I’VE FOUND THAT whatever…
Thrilling First Results of the “Travel Writer Crash Course”
THE FIRST WRITER who read the Travel Writer Crash Course here on the Fear of Writing blog (which takes about 10 minutes to read) did not think she was qualified to participate in the program—but she took the risk of applying and has had a wonderful experience so far. Here is the story behind the…
Writing for Myself. And for Always.
By guest blogger Jenn Martin-Ilo I RECENTLY LOST my job because my company decided to outsource some of its payroll HR duties. Since I’ve been home, I have done a lot of thinking: What else can you do with freedom? (Okay, so I don’t really have much freedom since I have a six-month-old baby ….
Blowing Up the Writing Balloon
By guest writer Vicki Lathom. Photos Copyright © Vicki Lathom. I guess it all started when I realized I wasn’t having fun with writing, but I had a lurking feeling that I might have fun if I just knew how. I’ve been writing for 40 years: majored in journalism, was a public information officer for…
The @IQOkie Debate
By guest blogger Tricia Sutton Rules, guidelines, and basic social media etiquette for aspiring authors do, for the most part, make a lot of sense. Like, why use a cat avatar if my book isn’t about cats? My future published book will not be written by IQOkie (which does represent my book), so why have…
