The Final MPs Entry
It’s been an amazing journey, but I have many more journals to glean.
Gleaning Words
Gather your thoughts, uncover your stories, and cultivate a meaningful writing habit through the quiet power of journaling, Morning Pages, and reflective writing.
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Create Your Own Lines
Rather than coloring inside the lines others have imposed upon you.
Let’s Play 20 Questions
Don’t worry, it’s family-friendly.
Peculiar Thinking
for a peculiar people
A Writing Ratio
...as compared to marketing. Sometimes, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the selling of our work rather than what’s more important—the production of it. In this entry, I’ll give you a reasonable ratio as it relates to both.
Be the Clay
Let the Potter mold you. This, one of the final entries in my Morning Pages Journal, is probably one of my most inspired entries in the entire notebook. I hope it inspires you to take your own creative action, your own first draft of something bigger.
Speak, Lord
For thy servant heareth. “To obey is better than sacrifice.” These words spoken by Samuel, the prophet and last judge of the nation of Israel in the Old Testament, are sometimes hard to swallow. Because, quite often, obedience is a sacrifice in itself.
The Winning is in the Dying
The ongoing struggle to reach your full potential. If you’ve ever watched a movie, play, or TV show (or read a book or story) that spoke so deeply to your emotional side it left you drained, you’ll recognize some of the feelings I felt upon discovering a particular anime series I discuss in this entry.
GW004 My First Writing Retreat
Listen now | Follow me in this video and audio adventure as I show and describe my experience on my first-ever writing retreat.
Seeds of Stories
and the fruits that come from them. As a writer, it’s sometimes easy to forget (and by contrast hard to remember) how much the actual act of writing itself solves many of the problems I find myself facing. So many of my worries, fears, and doubts would be easily remedied if I just committed to doing the writing instead of allowing resistance to win.