Guidelines for Crafting Story
So who’s your Story about? I generally feel a wee bit disoriented right after shaping a book proposal. What’s it worth? I wondered. What if my agent rejects it? What if this is all a fool’s errand? What have I…
From Writer to Published: Craft & Creative Mastery
You want to publish your book. Whether you’re writing your first or fifth book, you fantasize about finishing that book, getting it into the hands and hearts of people who need it, and what might happen to your life and sense of…
Business not as usual but as art
They shape hours, days, and weeks like clay – even if what comes out is not what they envisioned.
At the end of the day they do not want to feel like the walking dead.
They want to feel utterly, wildly alive.
On Our Resistance to Decode Magic: Sunday Essay
Note: Around once a month, I pledge to break blog decorum and essay = attempt to say something; a trial; an artful testing out on foot. The essay more than any other writing form is the amorphous form of the writer’s…
Tracking Wonder, Serendipity, & Creative Virtuosity on the Web
The Cost of Creative Excellence Take an experiment with me. First, consider this. When it comes to production value, I’ve noticed we creatives can get trapped between extremes. By production value, I mean how well we execute and produce our…
3 Actions Great Authors Take to Abate Fear, Doubt, & Shame
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…
