Read this on galpod.com. I've just finished The War of Art. I'll write a review later this week, but for now, I wanted to talk about a fascinating thing Pressfield talks about: Resistance with a capital R. Resistance is a force fuelled by our fear of change. It will do anything to keep us from fulfilling our potential, from following our calling as artists. Resistance comes in many forms, according to Pressfield. We talked a little bit about procrastination as a form of Writi

Read this on galpod.com. Last night, I ran the meeting of our Writing Group. We talked about writing block and had a good discussion. First, we talked about the name. Writer's block sounds like it's part of the writer's personality, some failing of character that you possess. A better term I found is writing block, which takes away any blame on the part of the writer. But I don't like even that term. To me, "writing block" or getting stuck in your writing is a part of the wri

Read this on galpod.com. Our writers' group discussion this week was about 1st person vs 3rd person. It was deftly run by Joe Humphreys and went very well. I was particularly struck by the adamant views that people had about loving or hating one or the other. It's true that each of these points of view has "advantages" and "disadvantages" but, as Joe said, they're not exactly that. In my book, point of view is, like most things, a tool that you can use to tell the story you'r