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Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Jun 5, 2017

Learn How to Keep It One Hundred by Reading Toni Morrison’s New Yorker Essay

I was talking to a friend about writing and keeping it one hundred. She said, “Did you read Toni Morrison’s New Yorker essay about work? Talk about keeping it one hundred.”

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Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Mar 20, 2017

Therapy is the Shit

Back when I was a trashmonster who thought I could just white knuckle my way through life, I was wary of therapy. The thing is, I really had no idea what it was and I’d internalized the idea that anyone who needed help was somehow shameful, terrible at life, and indulgent. I put a lot of…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Feb 6, 2017

5 Tips to Make Meditation Easier

I’ve been trying to meditate on and off over the past seven years, but I’ve never been able to keep it up. At work, my boss organized mindfulness classes for the team. (My workplace is amazing.) After just one session, I’ve been able to get past my thoughts of “what am I…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Jan 30, 2017

10 Healing Ways to Spend 15 Minutes

Yesterday, I sat in my apartment wondering: what can I do during these turbulent times? How can I contribute and take action from where I am in the world that creates results? I settled on donating money to the ACLU and writing to my member of parliament and to the…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Jan 16, 2017

Make Writing a Choice, Not a Chore

This is a great time of year to make a commitment to your craft, but if you’ve been having writer’s block this may be the wrong decision. Rather than resolving to write, choose to give yourself a break for all of January. I mean it. You are not a bad person if you…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Nov 14, 2016

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I’m exhausted right now, but I wanted to check in and send my love to everyone. It’s dark times right now and it’s okay to take some time to process everything. I’ve been escaping via episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Oct 24, 2016

The Next Fix

My biggest life achievement this month is I hired someone to repair the closet door in my bedroom. I know, this sounds like a simple…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Oct 17, 2016

We Are Human

I can’t stop reading about the American election. I’ve likely logged ten hours watching speeches, debates, and comedy clips. That’s six hundred minutes I could have devoted to my novel. The weekend before last I was in Taipei and during a huge storm I stayed in the hotel to take a bath, drink tea, and…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Oct 10, 2016

A Hack to Manage Your Energy: the #raddesklunch

One of the things that depresses me most is when people say that they’re “never not working”. From experience, I know that a workplace is toxic when people skip lunch, stay late, and work on weekends. This round the clock productivity is a sick…

Doretta Lau in Well to Write

Oct 3, 2016

Changes or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Stevia