Answer Your Questions
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Answer Your Questions I carried a question around with me for at least the last month or so. I was nearing a deadline and I had to make a decision. But I was unable to. And the nearer I got to the deadline, the more stressful it got...
Decision Time
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Decision Time How did you feel when you started out writing? Why did you to it? Was it curiosity? Did you have a story inside you that needed to be told? Did you want to get rich and famous? Whatever the reason, I’d bet most of us - if not...
When Do You Shine
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] When Do You Shine Pressure in and of itself is not a bad thing. It forces us to get out of our comfort zones, do things that we are not used to, make experiments, keep learning. The problem with pressure comes if it’s too much and not...
Everything Is Easier For Beautiful People
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Everything Is Easier For Beautiful People It’s pretty easy to see things that we want in others. And then we envy them. Or we might get angry about the fact that they have it and we don’t. We see the goals that they have already reached. Their status. Their successes. Their...
The Emotional Bull Ride
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Emotional Bull Ride I did competitive latin american formation dance for a while. In case you’ve never seen this, it’s a group of 8 couples performing a 6-minute routine of a variation of latin american dances and all the movements are synchronized and have to...
The Unexpected Reaction
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Unexpected Reaction Some time ago I read in a book that above the age of 30, most of what we do is done out of habit. We don’t think about it. We’ve done the things we do so often, they’ve become second nature. But as writers...
I Hate Doing That
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] I Hate Doing That Writer’s Life. I think everyone of us has a vision of how their own writer’s life should look like. But in this vision we tend to see only the beautiful things about it and not the whole picture. That’s okay, because we also have...
The Whisper That Sneaks Up On You
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Whisper That Sneaks Up On You When I scrolled through my LinkedIn feed yesterday I saw a short clip of an interview with Steven Spielberg. And whatever you think about him or the kinds of movies he makes, I think not many people would dispute...
Emotional Stock Exchange
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Emotional Stock Exchange I’m not an investment expert but the way I understand the stock exchange is that what investors deal with there are not necessarily real values but the expectation of values. The same happens with our emotions. When we expect a bright future we’re happy...
Micro Writing
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Micro Writing Let’s face it. Writing is like a puzzle with a trillion pieces. And all of them need to fit together well to create a great story. And a lot of them need a lot of attention, thinking and quite a bit of time. That’s where “being in...