Tag: creative coaching
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On Books and Backpacking
I took the last week of August off and headed out on a backpacking trip in the Olympic Peninsula. Northern Washington state is home to Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest. It’s a protected area of mountains, glaciers, old-growth forest, and subalpine meadows. We spent each day walking long distances in old-growth groves in the […]
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Sustainable writing practice
I spoke with a coaching client who wants to rebuild his writing practice. He’s in his early forties and hasn’t written much since his university days. His memory of writing in his twenties was that he tended to go to “dark places” and that it was hard to come back from them. His exploration of […]
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The long game
“I’m planning on writing a novel,” she told me. “But I have a bunch of ‘life’ things to sort out at the moment. I’ll be in touch in September about working together in the fall.” “You can absolutely take your time,” I said. “But in my experience, booking an editor in September leads to pushing […]