I got a lovely note from a reader that included this passage (reprinted with kind permission): "For the last one and a half week I have been in kind of in a slump, disappointed after a school assignment I had trouble finishing. I thought I finally had my writing problem ...

And it's got an amazing cover!               Thanks to the good people at Mann-Ivanov-Ferber for the translation.    

This piece originally appeared on the blog of The Woman and the Owl Foundation, a fantastic group that, "explores and encourages the development of women spiritual leaders of all faiths and backgrounds through education, community, and support." I also did a video interview with them which you'll find here. Many ...

Busy preparing for my Colorado and Missouri trip. As my Facebook friends know—and, by the way, you're invited to become one—I've morphed into a mushroom fanatic since moving to the midwest, and will be attending the Telluride Mushroom Festival. Oh yeah, and I'll also be giving a bunch of writing-productivity ...

Hope to see you at a workshop! Always check my calendar for the latest dates and information.

Slacker? This list of the daily word counts of famous authors has been making the rounds. The top producers, by far, are the late thriller writer Michael "Jurassic Park" Crichton and the late British historical novelist R. F. Delderfield, who both apparently wrote 10,000 words a day. Then we've got one 6,000-word-a-day ...

Check out this fun 30-minute interview I did on boosting writing productivity and overcoming perfectionism. The interviewers were the lively and knowledgeable Dr. Bob Wright and Christine Wright of StressFreeNow: https://www.hillaryrettig.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/012-Hillary-Rettig-Tells-You-How-to-Overcome-Writers-Block.mp3

Last week was amazing, here in the U.S. We started with despair (at the murder of the nine black parishioners by a Confederate-flag-wearing white supremacist in Charleston), followed by hope (a newfound widespread rejection of said flag), relief (the Supreme Court ruling preserving the Obamacare subsidies), and, finally, jubilation (the ...