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Is it healthy to need your space?

February 22, 2021 By Carol Cassara 12 Comments

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I am a person who needs her space. I have always been that person. Always. When my writing class laments the solitude of writing, I celebrate it. When class members want to get together online to write and then chat a little, in between our solitary writing sessions, my feelings are a mix of FOMO . . .

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How to follow the best writing advice, ever

February 12, 2021 By Carol Cassara 24 Comments

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Was there ever more difficult advice for a writer to follow, especially if they haven't been a professional writer for a lifetime? And, even if, like me, you have been? But it is, in fact, the best writing advice, ever. When we work so hard on something, when we are so attached to our prose, the . . .

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I am not writing about you. Or I am.

October 16, 2020 By Carol Cassara 17 Comments

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” Every writer I know loves this quote from writer Annie LaMott. We do own our experiences and we absolutely write about them, at least in my genre, which is . . .

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Filed Under: A Healing Spirit, Blog, Soul School Tagged With: Writers, Writing

If you’re a creative who isn’t creating….

January 13, 2020 By Carol Cassara 4 Comments

If you feel guilty because you're a writer who isn't writing, an artist who isn't making art--let it go. You are creating the time and space that will spark ideas and inspire new directions. You're "gathering data." Our traditional work ethic says we have to be "doing something" every minute or . . .

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The vastness is bearable only through love

September 23, 2019 By Carol Cassara 1 Comment

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Read this one slowly because each nugget is profound: Freedom is a heavy load, a great strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given but a choice made, and the choice made made may be a hard one. The road goes upwards towards the light, but the latent traveler . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Soul School Tagged With: Love, Poetry, Politics, truth, Writing

The universe is not outside

October 11, 2017 By Carol Cassara 64 Comments

When you're looking for any kind of inspiration, you need go further than yourself. That's what my friend, blogger Jennifer Rochette Koshak believes and she shares some inspiration with us today: The Universe is Not Outside By Jennifer Rochette Koshak of UnfoldandBegin.com Did you ever sit down to . . .

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Letting it all hang out

January 4, 2017 By Carol Cassara 58 Comments

There's good writing advice and there's bad writing advice. So let's talk about that. I know a lot of bloggers and some writers who quote writer Anne LaMott, who famously wrote: "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they . . .

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Find your voice

February 25, 2016 By Carol Cassara 26 Comments

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Don't let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice. So use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes,  just find your voice. And when you do fill the damn silence. ~Meredith on Grey's Anatomy Some of us are still afraid to find our voice. Others . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: Life Lessons, Writing

Avoid these 5 blog mistakes

October 26, 2015 By Carol Cassara 58 Comments

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If you're not a blogger, you probably don't know that your comments are blogger GOLD. Whether it's because we like to promote discussion or we want to show reader engagement to our sponsors, we love your comments. But there are a few easy-to-fix mistakes bloggers make that get in the way of reader . . .

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Author John McPhee on the delete key

September 24, 2015 By Carol Cassara 30 Comments

John McPhee's books got my attention in the early 1970s and I've been a reader of his since then. Of course, he's often in the The New Yorker magazine, that bastion of great writing and especially great creative nonfiction. So when I saw his latest essay about writing in the Sept. 14, 2015 issue, I . . .

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