If you’ve been following my site regularly, you’d know that I value consistency more than anything else in the writing process. If I were to preach only one thing on sylviesoul.com it would be for all writers, old or new, aspiring or established, to practice consistency. It is my mantra and hope by the time you finish […]
Category: Evergreen
Content about the practice of writing that will always be relevant to helping a writer hone his or her craft.
How to Avoid Creative Burnout as a Writer
One of my main goals for 2021 is to produce a post a week for sylviesoul.com. As I mentioned in my previous post about goal setting, I came close to achieving a post a week in 2019, but fell woefully short in 2020, despite being laid off for five months that year. And it certainly wasn’t due to […]
Animal Crossing and Mental Health: Pascal’s Top 5 Best Quotes
January is one of the most depressing months of the year. Unless your birthday happens to fall in January, there’s not much to look forward to in this depressing first month. The holidays are over, the weather outside is cold, and most people abandon their New Year’s Resolutions by Blue Monday — touted as the most depressing […]
3 Lessons Disney Pixar’s SOUL Teaches About the Meaning of Life
Note: This post contains spoilers I watched the new Disney Pixar film Soul on Disney Plus and I was blown away. Pixar has done it again with another beautifully animated feature film just in time for Christmas. But Soul isn’t just a gorgeous-looking movie with an amazing jazz soundtrack. As is the norm, Soul is […]
In Writing, You Have to Make Your Own Luck
The other day I went for a lengthy walk around the city. It was not a route I usually traveled, and it took about 2 hours to complete. It wasn’t until the very end of my walk, when I made a stop at my local grocery store, that I realized that I had misplaced the […]