NOTE: This piece I originally sent to my Create & Captivate Inner Pack. They receive behind-the-scenes glimpses into “the business” of Tracking Wonder and into my personal forays during my six-month Deep Create Zone. So many of them sent me…
Laraine Herring interviewed me for her blog today. We talk about making boundaries around family life and creative life, the resonance of the Mind Rooms metaphor, compassion for the creative mind, and playing with fiction. Every book I’ve read of…
The story of Haruki Murakami’s path to becoming one of the world’s most respected living novelists includes a jazz bar, a baseball game, and a whole lot of marathons. I don’t have space…
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 1989 The day stretches out in its own measures with sun and shadow, and you pass through its beats. If you’re…
During the past few years, a new story of creativity has emerged. But even the new story is incomplete. Let me be audacious enough to recount the old story, propose the new story, and to fill in what I think…
It’s tempting for fiction writers to get enraptured by their own style, for memoirists to “over-love” their own story, and for nonfiction writers to get caught up in their marketing ploys. But style without substance is an over-dressed affair. And…
I’m proud to launch Tracking Wonder’s first tangible product. Something you can put in your hands and mark on. I never thought the word “product” would feel so good. And look so good. And be so useful. If you’re experiencing…
Story died in 1969. After a promising start beginning as a lad dancing around campfires and later accompanied by harp-toting bards and onto tragic and comic stages, Story gave shape and meaning to people around the globe.
Most schedulers, planners, and “time management” techniques I’ve used and studied don’t speak the language of a creative mind. They don’t get what drives creative people.
What drives creative people in products and methods: meaning, beauty, and function.
If you write me between now and Monday morning, I’ll be in the woods. Literally. I’m on retreat. In my house – mostly in my studio and create room. And for over three days, I will not answer the phone…
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