Discipline and Discovery Energize Running, Writing
SLOW BUT STEADY: A box turtle on the Barnegat Branch Trail is one of the author’s little discoveries that help motivate her to keep going. (Photo courtesy of Robin Lentz Worgan) I spend my summers on LBI. This summer I resolved to find a dirt trail off the Island to run on because I am […]
Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories
Seven years ago, I was sitting in a writing workshop getting the kind of feedback I dreaded…The workshop leader spoke of how every novel she’d written had come from her obsessions. Something slipped in me when she said this. It was what I most feared: my novel wasn’t working, my writing wasn’t working, because it […]