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WriteHive 2026 Online Conference: Recovering Creativity After Burnout

| October 7, 2026

Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. This week, I’m talking about “Recovering Creativity After Burnout,” presented by Dianna Gunn. As someone who hit the wall of burnout face first last year, this was an extremely valuable presentation for me to […]

Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book Prompt 8: Zen?

| July 24, 2026

On Monday, I posted the eighth prompt from the Big Pink Book, which had some zen-like vibes. Rather than use those vibes to write fiction, I used this page to think a little bit about balancing the various demands on my time. This was likely because I worked on it after having participated in the […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 1

| October 7, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this post just covers the Friday (day 1) […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: How to Write When You Don’t Want To (The Afronauts)

| August 26, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! The Afronauts presented How to Write When You Don’t Want To, which was a great place to start […]

Coping with Burnout

| March 25, 2024

Every so often, burnout rears its ugly head. For me, it usually happens most often when I’m trying to cram too much into too small of a space of time. But it can also happen when my day job gets particularly hectic, leaving me feeling drained and unable to do anything more when I get […]

Balancing Productivity and Burn-Out

| July 8, 2019

I turned the Fourth of July holiday into a long weekend by taking Friday off, and I gave myself a lengthy to-do list for the four-day weekend. I’m pleased to say that I made it through the list, but there were a few times when looking at it made me feel a bit overwhelmed, like […]