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.
Wasted, Used or Savoured?
“I wasted an hour.”* Too often in the industrialized world we’re so focused on productivity—filling every tiny second with something that will lead to something else—that we forget the importance of time. The true importance. Not as something to be quantified, managed or exchanged, but as something that’s useful, flexible and wonderful. Too often we don’t understand how much so.
The Beauty of Boredom
“I’m bored.” When’s the last time you said that? Or been that?
Waiting for Applause
Applause is wonderful. It feels fantastic.
It’s okay if…
You don’t know where your story is going.