Over the last few weeks, my health has decided to explore a new dimension. Which is the most positive way I can find of saying it has tumbled over another cliff. It isn’t worse necessarily just different to how it was before. Those of you who are regular readers of my newsletter will know that I live with a chronic health problem that has been rumbling on for six years now. I’ve learned to accept it as best I can and to pivot when needed, to adapt my life around the illness rather than trying to persuade the illness to adapt around my life (since the illness - he’s called Trevor - is not the most adaptable type).
This is really generous and wonderful of you: thank you! I am especially excited to check out the Body Language Bible. That's a really cool concept.
I'm new to your newsletter, but I think it's so neat that, just last week, your name came up in an online writing workshop I'm in (12-week flash novel mastermind with Nancy Stohlman-love her!). Two fellow writers in that course are taking your current revision course. Love how tight-knit the flash writing community seems to be. And now I'm even more interested in taking one of your classes as well!
Matt, your resources are awesome! And can I just say, being neurodivergent (woman with Asperger's), the two emotion lists are so helpful in life. So many things I just did not know. It's very generous of you to share, freely, such great resources, that must have taken a lot of effort to put together. Can't thank you enough.
As you know, I'm a fellow trudger along the weary road of chronic illness, and the last few weeks have been particularly awful. Am so grateful for my writing at such times, though brain fog is making it especially difficult. A wise friend of mine shared some old Hasidic wisdom he recently came across, in the form of three little words: 'So be it.' I've found the phrase to be a fast-track to acceptance, which doesn't mean I'm happy with how things are, only that I'm allowing them to be. In removing my resistance, I can find a little peace and let go of 'I should be able to...' or 'I used to be able to...' You know what I mean, I'm sure.
Thanks for all the lovely freebies, it's so very kind and decent of you! Lots to discover among them, and I'm sure they'll prove to be a valuable resource in my craft!
This is really generous and wonderful of you: thank you! I am especially excited to check out the Body Language Bible. That's a really cool concept.
I'm new to your newsletter, but I think it's so neat that, just last week, your name came up in an online writing workshop I'm in (12-week flash novel mastermind with Nancy Stohlman-love her!). Two fellow writers in that course are taking your current revision course. Love how tight-knit the flash writing community seems to be. And now I'm even more interested in taking one of your classes as well!
Thanks for all these resources, Matt. Really useful and very kind of you to share them all.
Matt, your resources are awesome! And can I just say, being neurodivergent (woman with Asperger's), the two emotion lists are so helpful in life. So many things I just did not know. It's very generous of you to share, freely, such great resources, that must have taken a lot of effort to put together. Can't thank you enough.
Hang in there, Matt!
As you know, I'm a fellow trudger along the weary road of chronic illness, and the last few weeks have been particularly awful. Am so grateful for my writing at such times, though brain fog is making it especially difficult. A wise friend of mine shared some old Hasidic wisdom he recently came across, in the form of three little words: 'So be it.' I've found the phrase to be a fast-track to acceptance, which doesn't mean I'm happy with how things are, only that I'm allowing them to be. In removing my resistance, I can find a little peace and let go of 'I should be able to...' or 'I used to be able to...' You know what I mean, I'm sure.
Thanks for all the lovely freebies, it's so very kind and decent of you! Lots to discover among them, and I'm sure they'll prove to be a valuable resource in my craft!