Resisting journaling? Name your reasons for not writing—and then rebut them. That might work!
Great Journaling Techniques
Try these! They may turn your intermittent journaling into a regular practice.
Try these! They may turn your intermittent journaling into a regular practice.
Best Journaling Basics
Build this daily habit and reap the benefits!
Build this daily habit and reap the benefits!
Journaling for Men
Journaling can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness and take responsibility for your life. That’s a lot!
Journaling can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness and take responsibility for your life. That’s a lot!
Au Revoir to the Place des Vosges
I hope that you’ll go to Paris and write. Right now, though, you need to write precisely where you are, with dirty dishes in the sink, bills piled high by the phone.
I hope that you’ll go to Paris and write. Right now, though, you need to write precisely where you are, with dirty dishes in the sink, bills piled high by the phone
Fearing Paris
If you want Paris but a terrible fear courses through you when you bring the subject up to yourself, these are the answers: forgiveness and courage.
If you want Paris but a terrible fear courses through you when you bring the subject up to yourself, these are the answers: forgiveness and courage.
If Not Paris, if Not a Year
Reframe your annual vacations as pillars of your writing life. Include Paris—or not.
Reframe your annual vacations as pillars of your writing life. Include Paris—or not.
Second Chances
Alcoholics get sober, cowardly lions find their courage, and with each new dawn, every writer gets a second chance to write well.
Alcoholics get sober, cowardly lions find their courage, and with each new dawn, every writer gets a second chance to write well.
Smaller and Smaller
Prepare for the onslaught of strangeness by pledging to remain passionate and ambitious no matter how cramped your room begins to feel.
Prepare for the onslaught of strangeness by pledging to remain passionate and ambitious no matter how cramped your room begins to feel.
Rainy Day Love
Rainy day lovers, so warm, so delicious, also tempt us to give in to our shadow. They help us fall where we are primed to fall.
Rainy day lovers, so warm, so delicious, also tempt us to give in to our shadow. They help us fall where we are primed to fall.
The Professor of Nothing
To want to be part of the scene so badly that you impersonate a literature instructor—that is pathetic, poignant, and perfectly acceptable.
To want to be part of the scene so badly that you impersonate a literature instructor—that is pathetic, poignant, and perfectly acceptable.
Sartre and Accountability
Man can look in the mirror and, if he is brave enough to stare, catch a glimpse of his own tricks.
Man can look in the mirror and, if he is brave enough to stare, catch a glimpse of his own tricks.
Disrespecting Albert Camus
His World War II heroism notwithstanding, he told too many hard truths to receive public glorification.
His World War II heroism notwithstanding, he told too many hard truths to receive public glorification.
Maya and Lemonade
Maya is a necessary god. We must maintain illusions.
Maya is a necessary god. We must maintain illusions.
With Your Daughter on the Rue de Rivoli
A writer who is also a parent has double leadership duties and can fulfill them both on an excellent sojourn in Paris. I
A writer who is also a parent has double leadership duties and can fulfill them both on an excellent sojourn in Paris. I
Not Writing
If you’ve come all the way to Paris to write and you’re not writing, don’t capitulate. Prove the exception.
If you’ve come all the way to Paris to write and you’re not writing, don’t capitulate. Prove the exception.