Your Weekly Writing Exercise

How Do You Gauge Your Creative Success?

A few tips I've learned about keeping my faith in myself--and how to achieve goals more aligned to who I am

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jan 16, 2026
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What’s new in my writing room: For Christmas, my spouse gave me six beautiful new frames for the series of pond reflection paintings I’ve worked on all summer and fall. So now I had to finish them! Below you can see how they look all framed up in our living room. Just seeing them reminds me of why I want to focus on my writing and art this year. The …

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