Nina Amir's Thoughts on Spirituality, Judaism, Human Potential, Personal Growth, and Living Fully
This week I celebrated my 50th birthday by attending a three day writing retreat. I treated myself to two extra days on the site.
Everyone just left but one woman who is staying an extra day and my roommate, who is also staying the two extra days.
Turning 50 didn’t really make that much difference to me. [...]
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time at my computer early in the morning. I don’t mean at 6 a.m. I mean at 12:30 a.m. and at 1 a.m. and at 2 a.m. My days are so filled with marking things off my to-do list, handling emails and phone calls, social networking for business, [...]
I’ve been procrastinating for days. I have articles to write…not even all such boring articles, but I don’t want to write them. I have to squeeze too much information into too small a space. It takes too long. I don’t get paid enough. And while I sit here at my computer, I feel like life [...]
I just returned from the San Francisco Writers Conference. This year I had the great privilege of not just attending or working as a volunteer but of working with attendees as a “book doctor” – freelance nonfiction book editor. I also helped judge the annual “pitch” contest, during which aspiring authors practice their “elevator speech,” [...]
Last weekend I attended my third San Francisco Writer’s Conference, a wonderful event for “dreamers” with the vision of writing a book and having it published. As one of those dreamers, I attended classes to learn how to accomplish my goal of becoming a published non-fiction author. I highly recommend this conference for any and [...]
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