“I Go Among Trees” by Wendell Berry – with reflection questions
A quiet poem to pause with and gather strength from …
Author: lauraaliese
How Quiet Writers Can be Just as Effective as Loud Writers
A podcast appearance with Canadian book coach Suzy Vadori on her Show, don’t Tell writing podcast …
Why It Can Be Lonely and Restless as a Writer
Are your writing relationships feeling depleted, distant, or directionless? Today’s Quiet Writing Life podcast talks about an ancient pattern for healthy relationships just as relevant today. …
Permission to Slow Down and Be Intentional
Where can you give yourself permission to slow down and be intentional in your writing day? Listen to this podcast episode to hear two types of daily time “structure” and about “Daily Office” —a way people have been intentional in structuring their time for centuries. …
Enough is enough
What does enough look like to you, as a writer? …
A Dangerous Question
Writing can feel like dangerous work, taking me places I’d rather not see or acknowledge.
But I’m a firm believer that the truth sets me free, when I want the truth, move towards the truth, and am vulnerable and responsible to the truth. …
So Much Time
It all takes so much time.
We feel this, writing, revising, revising again, querying, and waiting on pins and needles for success as rejection slaps us in the face.
And yet time is all that we really have… …
The Power to Choose to be an Artist
You can choose to be an artist no matter what other people say. No one is forcing you to give up your right to be an artist, to be a curator of your own intelligences. You hold that power, and you can also choose to give it away. …
Seeing
Muddy snowbanks: the grime is patterned if you look close enough. …
Inner Worlds
What an amazing gift each person is born with—a unique landscape inside their souls. …