by Deborah Bayer | Aug 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
This week, I found a quote from Toni Morrison that helped me. The quote was in one of the many articles I read in the New York Times after her death. Here’s a snippet from the Op-Ed written by Roxane Gay that includes the quote. In a conversation with Hilton Als for...
by Deborah Bayer | Aug 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about the external obstacles to my writing. This week, I hit internal obstacles: resistance and procrastination. These feel worse to me. I feel defeated when I allow myself to be undermined by my anxieties. Yet, I am proud when I am not permanently...
by Deborah Bayer | Jul 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have set a deadline for finishing the first draft of my memoir. I set it by using left-brain planning. I took the total number of words, and I divided it by the number of writing days left in the year. Is that a reasonable number of daily words? Yes? Okay, that’s...
by Deborah Bayer | Jul 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Greetings from Mono, Ontario. I’m taking time off from my writing retreat to tell you about one of the presentations I attended this week. We are quite a diverse group, yet we have this vital thing in common, that we want to help other people write and heal through...
by Deborah Bayer | Jul 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
This weekend, I will be traveling to the Hockley Valley, about 45 minutes north of Toronto, for a reunion. It’s been two years since I became certified in facilitating writing groups through Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA). On Friday, I will be attending an AWA...
by Deborah Bayer | Jul 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Healers write; writers heal and grow. I wouldn’t be who I am today without writing. Writing has given me insight into my most difficult relationships, including the one with myself. There are some people who don’t know what they are thinking until they hear themselves...
