Note: This is a op-ed blended with personal narrative. It’s unapologetically 3200 words. I welcome your views and comments to further the conversation. 1. Are You a Punk or Outlaw? The DIY movement has its roots in home improvement –…
This is a story about seeing beyond either/or. It’s a story about choosing friends and fulfillment and your readers while still forwarding your career. It’s a story about collaborative publishing. It’s a tale of two novels, too, coming out on…
We often hear about the importance of play when it comes to creating new things and ideas. John Cleese says, “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” But what about creating a new life? A whole…
When William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he implored the then-younger, perhaps more jaded writers to exhibit this quality. The next year, John Steinbeck followed suit and called for it as well. Maxine Hong Kingston has called it…
Here’s what I’ve been hearing: Something in us aches to be free and brave to create what matters. To take risks to stand up and stand out. To tell the Story we know must be told. But time dogs us….
In the Tower of Babel that is publishing these days, it’s easy for authors to get distracted and to side-track their creative process in favor of over-thinking viable creative products. The push to publish and profit can override the hardest fact. I’m offering…
A TRACKING WONDER Conversation with Jen Louden & How We Can Step Up & Teach Now (+ smashing hard-boiled eggs, feeling like fried leather, getting out of fish bowls, why we have no time for sacred fetuses, & lots of…
In 2005, where was wonder, this emotional state at the core of creativity, story, innovation, and wisdom? Newly divorced and fresh off a book tour, I hovered that year in a precarious in-between state. So what did I do? I started…
I’ve told the story of how a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (1) without talent became a master of creative nonfiction and literary journalism. I mentioned that he took three creative actions that any of us can take. I want to reiterate…
Years ago, when I heard the word “branding” I admittedly thought of cattle burned, owned, and herded. Where was the art? The creativity? The humanity of trying to herd people into buying something? But as a creative-entrepreneur, I’ve since radically…
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