AFTER BEING OFFLINE for many weeks with a pinched nerve, I’ve discovered that’s where I’d rather be for now: offline. I’m busy packing to move back to New Mexico where I’ll finally be back with family and friends. Being on the computer just doesn’t sound interesting when I can be doing other things with those…
Category Archives: Milli Thornton
What’s Dog Got to Do With It?
Being a cat person, it’s ironic for me to use a dog as the symbol of Fear of Writing. Here’s Dog in all his glory (right), setting a match to his manuscript. I originally commissioned the dog image from artist Steve Andrus as a way to reassure potential readers that this book isn’t scary—it’s about…
Mainlining Chocolate Fudge at the Writer’s Immunization Clinic
Recently the ever-inspirational Charlotte Rains Dixon (@Wordstrumpet) wrote a very helpful post on her blog called How Do You Beat the Writer’s Blues? Well worth bookmarking for those moments when you’re floundering and your brain ab-so-lute-ly refuses to remember any strategies that ever worked for you in the past. In the comments section, I was…
A Whole New Meaning to “Finding Your Voice”
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. — Maya Angelou MY FRIEND MESHA recently returned from six years in India, where she studied spirituality and healing with a swami. She lived in an ashram and studied at the Soul University. Now that she’s back in the…
Busting the Old “Who Do You Think You Are?” Tapes
by Milli Thornton Before Post Traumatic Stress Disorder made it too difficult for me to continue, I used to enjoy being presenter for the Fear of Writing Clinic, a workshop based on my book. I haven’t presented that workshop since 2006. In terms of the PTSD, I’ve overcome mountains of stuff, but it took a…
The Fear of Blogging Survey
Like you, I’m lucky to be part of a friendly, supportive and stimulating blogging community of writers. But do you realize we have an advantage? We were already writers before we blogged. We may have all had our fears when we first started blogging, but at least we knew how to write. Lately I’ve been…
The Power of a Written Wish
Today I’m excited and honored to be a guest on Charlotte Rains Dixon’s blog, www.wordstrumpet.com. Charlotte has inspired me on many occasions, and in this post I talk about how she might also be magic. :~) Please visit and leave me a comment: The Power of a Written Wish
Listening to Hunches While Writing
By Milli Thornton In a post called Words for the Picking on the wordsxo blog, Julia Munroe Martin was pondering blueberries and writer’s block. At the end of the post, she asked How is your writing going? Are your words there for the picking or do you sometimes feel barren of words? Having used my…
Hangin’ Out With Atreyu
By Milli Thornton Apart from the June 10K Days, the Fear of Writing blog has not seen much activity since mid-June, when I left for my vacation in New Mexico. The vacation only lasted a week . . . but I caught a bug while we were there. I didn’t get much chance to rest…
Coffee and Writing: A Love Affair
By Milli Thornton I WAS OVER on @Wordstrumpet‘s blog (don’t you just love that Twitter handle?!) reading a post called You Can Do It! when I had an aha moment. Charlotte Rains Dixon was talking about her habits of procrastination after promising herself a writing session. And about what works best for her to get…
