A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.