on creating dragons
This November, I wrote a list of 26 items I wanted to complete in the month, as the sun sets and all my energy disappears along with it. I call it “Procrastination Prevention.” It coincides with the age I’m turning in a few weeks.
One of those items was to put together an order…
something around the corner
It feels like a year within reach.
Last year, for me, saw a lot of false starts and frustration, but also the completion of a project I had worked on for months and years (not my novel, to clarify). And it was fleeting, that feeling of pride, partly because the project is still unfolding…
the self-doubt gargoyle on my shoulder
I have this image that if I don’t succeed now, I’ll be a failure forever.
There’s an urgency to it. Get that website off the ground. Start promoting your work now, even before you’ve finished anything. Write that novel—first draft, second draft, third, fourth—before you hit 25.
Ironic, because I am a notoriously slow writer.
Danaye Reinhardt 