I'm about to quit blogging every day. It has been a certain cure for not writing, to write every day in January. It has been hard and good. It has been nice not to have to decide each day whether I will write, and this practice has convinced me that we make time for what we purpose to do.

I came across a helpful new strategy for my writing recently. It's called writing for a jury of twelve.

I spent an unknown numbers of hours, starting sometime in September and ending at the end of December, copying down quotes from Writing Down the Bones, the brilliant book by Natalie Goldberg on creating a writing practice. So much of what Goldberg writes wakes me up in the same way that Annie Dillard does.