In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.