Open & Nourish Your Mystery Box – Only 5 Spots Left
When I was a tow-headed boy, The Box in the Woods down the road kept my secrets. In the middle of The Woods towered a maple, an “X” carved with a butter knife in its bark. With no other kids…
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Should You Court Metaphor or Courage to Write Your Story?
A few months after Carol Sanford’s son Kirk died prematurely, as a writer she didn’t square off with or mine her heart, per se. She turned to her son’s astronomy notebooks. And then she felt her way into metaphor and…
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Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields: A Quick Book Review
As a guy whose advice for creatives to flourish often goes something like “Find yourself in getting lost” and “Move toward the difficult,” and as a guy who shucked a comfy sure-thing academic job twelve years ago to pursue something…
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Story-telling, Truth, & Cold Blood: Archived Interview w/Moneyball Director Bennet Miller
In February 2006 – weeks following the Oscar-winning Capote’s release and just weeks before the Oscars were announced – I had the good fortune to interview the film’s director Bennet Miller about the boundaries between truth and fiction in both…
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Save a Life, Do Great Work, & Buy a Book: Tracking Wonder Interviews Michael Bungay Stanier
I have big dreams and desires for being part of a cause that reaches far, far beyond the needs of myself, my loved ones, and even of the people with whom I work. But I still wonder how and when…
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Where Creatives Find Know-How, Community, & Affirmation
This morning in a courtyard in Taos, New Mexico, I guided fifteen writers through a meditative yoga flow. When I asked them to check in with questions such as, “What am I here for?” and “What am I writing for?”…
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In Praise of Pleasurable Inconvenience: An Essai
A couple of years ago, I said something to two music-craving, iPod-obsessed friends that to them made no sense whatsoever (and for the record I say a lot of such things). iTunes and Youtube had just come onto my radar,…
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2 Ways to Rally Wonder Into Your Creative Life
It’s really not as difficult as it sounds. But it’s crucial, this wonder-tracking, if we creatives and solo-preneurs want to sustain our creative projects and keep our momentum. Scenario 1: A client called me yesterday in crisis. Three years ago,…
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What’s Happened to Booze as Muse?
Booze as Muse for Yesterday’s Literary Stars A young and mostly unknown Ernest Hemingway met the newly celebrated F. Scott Fitzgerald allegedly in Paris’s Dingo Bar, a common hang out for ex-pat writers. That year, 1925, Scribner’s Sons had published…
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Inside Google Creative Labs – quick updates from a studio visit
Hello, Wild Pack, I’ve spent a couple of hours this morning at Google Creative Labs for a special talk & tour called “Making Good Things Happen That Matter.” The event is arranged by the organizers of The 99% Conference, which…
