Don’t blame your tools
Only an amateur potter blames the wheel.
Your Own Holiday
What would you like to celebrate?
The fun of fairytales
In celebration of Tell a Fairytale Day I wanted to share five things fairytales can teach creatives: A story is a triumph or a tragedy depending on the point of view
Creative wisdom from a nun
When I read the obituary about Sister Wendy one thing she said struck me. “I’m not a critic. I’m an appreciator” she said in 1999, “I think great art opens us not just to the truth as an artist sees it, but to our own truth . . . You’re being invited to enter into the reality of what it means to be human.”
Protecting the Inner Child
Just read Steven Barnes’s “The Hero’s Dead-End Journey” a powerful cautionary tale about how writers (specifically) or artists (generally) kill their creativity.