Big Moves

And what it can do to your work.

There’s still time to sign up for my May 9 workshop on WHY WE WRITE. You can register for it here. This workshop will be excellent prep for 1000 Words of Summer, which starts May 30 and runs through June 12. More about that here.

I’m doing four in-person events this spring on behalf of 1000 WORDS: in Atlanta, Asheville, NC, and Spartanburg.

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Hi friends.

I’m back from Philly where I ate so much food with my family and talked about books and growing old and staying young and how to use New York City as an internship for your life.

Also I both deliberately and randomly saw a bunch of writer friends scattered over the days there and I loved it so much. I saw Cynthia Sweeney and Jennifer Weiner at their event in honor of Cynthia’s new book, and then I saw Morgan Parker for lunch in West Philly and then I saw Sadie Dupuis at a few fancy clothing stores and then I ran into Liz Moore and Alexandra Kleeman and Alex Gilvarry on the street.

Some of the best conversations I’ve ever had with writers have been on street corners and have lasted five minutes or less. I love our ability to speak shorthand with each other, ground ourselves immediately in the phases of our personal creative process. As long as we’re getting a little something done we’ll be all right. All we need is just to be in motion.

Speaking of being in motion, I was thinking this morning about a friend who has moved twice in three years and has a deadline he hasn’t been able to meet yet. And I could tell there was this lingering sense of why isn’t this damn thing done yet already haunting his day, every day.