“You’re going to be afraid if you don’t write and afraid when you do write, so you may as well write and be afraid,” says a friend as we—she and her husband and their two young children and I—sit at the dinner table in their rented house after eating Thai takeout and it comes up: […]

Some days the work comes so hard. You’re insecure and self-doubtful and you hate whatever you make. What’s the point? you ask yourself. Why bother? Then you let the thoughts and emotions pass through and get back to work.  My personal challenge right now is this: don’t think about how you feel, and don’t feel […]