Writing

If you want to rejuvenate your writing processes, go outside. Get out in nature. Research shows that nature boosts our focus and creativity.

How do you address the reader in your writing: You? In the third person? We? Pronouns can add immediacy or distance. Use the right tool for the situation.

How can we approach our writing with self-compassion?

Wandering, complex sentences require the reader to juggle different mental images in working memory. They might forget where they started.

It’s easy to read the authors we love and notice only our own deficiencies. Don’t undervalue the abilities you already have.

Humor connects us. It humanizes the writing by exposing the similar ways our brains work. It lowers our defenses, raises our sense of trust.