by Deborah Bayer | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
As I write into it, my memoir keeps shapeshifting. In the latest iteration, it’s about the transformation from doctor to writer. The truth is that I’m both. I’ve moved from being a doctor who writes to being a writer who works part-time as a doctor. Sometimes, it’s...
by Deborah Bayer | Nov 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
For many writers, November is National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. The goal is to finish a 50,000 word first draft of a novel by the end of the month. I am not writing a novel, but I am taking advantage of the collective energy to do a modified NaNoWriMo for my...
by Deborah Bayer | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I had a busy, fun- and food-filled weekend visiting family in New England. Being away from my regular schedule and environment had a detrimental effect on my discipline. The habits I had cultivated over the past year were becoming unsteady even before this trip, but...
by Deborah Bayer | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
In my last phone call with my book coach, she was giving me suggestions for getting more of my inner landscape on the page. She said, “Readers don’t want to read about when things are going well for you. They want to read about pain, about how you overcame it to move...
by Deborah Bayer | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy Wednesday! I’m back after a one-week hiatus. In the two weeks since my last update, I spent a long weekend in Providence, RI where I got to see WaterFire Providence. There were bonfires lit in braziers over the Woonasquatucket River, forming a fire-sculpture...
by Deborah Bayer | Oct 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Since the days of my medical training, I have been good at setting and holding professional boundaries with my patients. It’s possible to have both empathy and limits. As a consulting physician, I struggled much more with setting boundaries with my colleagues. Once,...
