Virtually all of us have a natural instinct for telling stories, and it comes out in day-to-day conversation. When your car breaks down and you’re telling your friends about it, you don’t simply say, “I ran out of gas this morning. But my mom picked me up, and nothing else really happened, so I’m fine.”… Read More The Case for Storytelling
Inspiration: the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something creative. Here’s my theory: Inspiration is the state of being when the desire to create something specific is greater than any apprehension of possible failure. Just wanting to create isn’t enough, because you can still be paralyzed by the blank canvas/page. Inspiration is just not… Read More Inspiring Inspiration Manually
I was recently re-reading Jason Dorsey’s My Reality Check Bounced! and thinking about what I wanted my future to look like. I started thinking of questions I had for my future self, and being the time-travelling junkie that I am, I really liked the idea of writing a letter to my future self. Enjoy! Dear Mary… Read More Dear Future Me
I put “fartsy” in a blog title. Ha. In a previous blog post, I talked about asking the right question. I think that’s an easier concept for writers to think about questions. Visual artists have a harder time because they’re answering visual questions. For us, our questions don’t have “?” at the end, they just… Read More Artsy-Fartsy Questions
I’ve been staying up really late this week. Well… I always stay up late. I tell people I’m trying to be nocturnal. But this week, I’ve been staying up to read about revolvers of the Old American West: cowboys, y’all. This research actually started with Charles M. Russell, a famous painter who almost exclusively depicted the… Read More What’s a Good Question?
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