Is Writing Your Religion or Profession?
J.D. Salinger once wrote, “Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever...
View ArticleTo All The Books I’ll Never Read
In my younger, more vulnerable years, I used to keep a list of all the books I read. I took pride in this, took pride in counting how many books I read in any given year. I was one of the few who liked...
View ArticleHow the Art You Consume Determines the Quality of Your Work
In 2009, during an interview, radio host Ira Glass shared rare insights into what it means to be a creative. The kind of insights that are just at the edge of our mind’s peripheral vision; he managed...
View Article9 Lessons I’ve Learned About Creativity, Procrastination, and Punching The...
I think I wrote and published well over a million words by now. Probably even more. Who knows? Who cares? After all, the blank page that I have to fill right now with words doesn’t care about my...
View ArticleThe Creative Muscle
In the sixteen years since I wrote my first story, I’ve published five books, thousands of blog posts, and written a billion or so words that I later deleted. When I first got started, one of my...
View ArticleThe Art of Perfection
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle There’s a myth about Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel. One day, someone was watching the Italian artist spend an insane amount...
View ArticleHow to Fall in and Out of Love With Your Muse
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement kind of...
View ArticleHenry Miller’s 10 Tips to Help You Write Like Yourself
Henry Miller’s prose is unconventional, unapologetically sexual and philosophical, the topic of much controversy (his books were banned in the US until 1961), which is why he’s the kind of writer who...
View ArticleFour Dystopian Novels That Are Eerily Close to Becoming True
Dystopia literally means “not-good place” and is a term used to describe a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. Dystopian novels were all the rage back when during the Cold War,...
View ArticleHow to Improve Your Writing… Right Now
Many of you would love to write better short stories or poems, more compelling blog posts, more intriguing articles. And you’ve probably heard all the old advice by now. Practice makes perfect. Get...
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