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Now What?
Keep Going, Austin Kleon's book subtitled “10 Ways to Stay Creative In Good Times and Bad” is a creative's must-read.
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The Iciness of Routine
Routine is the elusive siren song that's good for us, yet we often struggle to believe in it enough to make it stick.
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Meeting Larry McMurtry
One of the most famous writers from Texas passed away this week.
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Writer's Muse
She sits there drinking beer, slumped in my papa san chair, leg bouncing up and down hinged at the knee, while staring out the window in feigned…
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Dream
In my dream, I was walking the familiar wooded paths nearby on a crisp, bright, winter’s day.
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Journaling: Grow Your Soul, Nourish Your Spirit
In an overcrowded, stress-inducing, crazy world, where does one find solace and relief?
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A Guide to Fine Whines
Selecting the best whine for any occasion requires knowledge and experience cultivated only by living a life of excess.
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Nomadic Writer
Words, like birds, seem to float just out of reach on currents that move unseen. And the muse, as fickle an entity as history provides, is like clouds…
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A Touch of Madness
There as many reasons people write as there are writers; as many resolves to continue writing in the face of obstacles as there are reasons to get back…
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Masked Writers
Picture the scene: nefarious men in determined chaos intent on inflicting damage and unspeakable horrors on the citizens of some nondescript country…
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A Private Room
We write alone, but we do not write in isolation.
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Shakespeare's Dilemma
Inspired by the wonderful sketches shared at moleskinerie, I finally succumbed to buying my first moleskine… without lines. As an ardent disciple of the…
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