Enough is enough
What does enough look like to you, as a writer? …
Author: lauraaliese
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. …
To Steep in the Quiet: How Solitude Makes Us Stronger
When I can hear my own thoughts and connect with my heart, I’m a better person for it. Kinder, softer, and more peaceful in an increasingly loud world. …
On death and writing
The snow streaked in the night like falling stars around my feet, suddenly lit by the oncoming headlights of a car.
I am going to die. …
Deep in My Bones
I feel deep in my bones every reason in the universe to give up writing.
The inner critic circles me like a crow in a blackened sky, eyeing my every move.
But writing is deep in my bones, too. …