Every single time I get sick I immediately forget what it feels like to breathe easy. Today, drowning in a heap of adrenaline from the rest of my life, I realized I do the same thing with stress.

All the things that you’re afraid of, things you didn’t even know you were afraid of, can happen. What matters is what you do next.

Can we just admit that almost none of our jobs require 40 hours a week? Not saying I’m twiddling my thumbs for the whole week (I am) but do we really need all 40?

Writer friends! If you're having a tough time focusing on your novel right now, try doing some writing off-draft, in a separate document. Here are three Small Assignments you can try to keep working, even when it's hard to focus: 1/4

My friends keep telling me to stop watching trash movies but have you ever watched a movie so bad it inspires you to finish that draft? Because I have.

You know that thing you do when life falls apart? That’s you. I spent years trying to convince myself I wasn’t meant to be a writer but the truth is that when I have nothing else, it’s all that I am.

“People only have as much power as you give them” seems like something a person with great power over others would say.