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I continue to sketch and freewrite each day, as well as keep my eyes and ears open to current thinking on creative flow exercises that assist writers (in particular) in thinking outside the box. [...]

Screen shot from the live, one-time-only, uniquely generated music video created by Arcade Fire when I inputed the address of my childhood home. The upper left box is the postcard I [...]

I’ve thought a lot about how to answer the question about healthy Internet practices when it comes to reading articles and following links. I can only express what I’ve learned by way of a few [...]

{source} Continuing the conversation about healthy Internet practices (particularly for self-employed artists), I want to take a moment to address two big unknowns: What about managing Internet [...]

As a part of my renewed focus on creative flow and insistence on a balanced life as a self-employed artist, I made a major change to my daily schedule three weeks ago. Ready? I only engage in [...]

I travel about once a month to teach, lecture, or read from my book. During these trips, I often get to talk to the folks who make these events possible. These are people who believe in sharing [...]

http://www.wlajournal.com I’m delighted to have a new essay, “On Patriotism & the Language of GWOT,” published this month in War, Literature & the Arts. This is the only [...]

I had an incredible weekend at Interlochen College of Creative Arts teaching my Deep Revision course. My gears are still turning, meantime, here are some stunning shots from peak fall in Northern [...]

This weekend I travel to Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan to teach a 10-hour weekend-long course in Deep Revision for fiction and nonfiction. This is a new course for me and [...]

As a way to jump-start my creativity each morning, especially during times the novel feels as stiff as a corpse, I’ve been experimenting with short exercises in mindful flow. There are a [...]