Mindful Flow

I recently heard author Patricia Ann McNair deliver an excellent craft talk (at this event), in which she detailed the benefits of distraction. Sure, it’s one thing to check your email when you [...]

Ever since living in the Airstream, I’ve been pretty chill about acquiring new items. When I lived in the silver twinkie, there simply was not space for anything I didn’t need. During [...]

The Internet is like profit or like sugar; none are inherently evil or pure. The Internet just is. Profit is, too. And sugar, love it or hate it, also hangs out in that “is-ness” realm. But what [...]

These are trying times. We’re surrounded by uncertainty. Art is under attack. These are the sentiments I keep hearing, and while I have my anxieties about the future, a wavering faith in [...]

A few weeks ago, I read an article on 99u in praise of being lazy. The view was refreshing, the article title provocative. And as I read along, I realized that another way of praising being [...]

This week, flash author Gay Degani published a guest blog post I wrote for her blog, Words in Place. Her blog is a great resource to discover new writers and find inspiration. I’m delighted [...]

This May, I’ll be co-leading a day-long workshop for artists, gallerists, curators, and arts writers as a part of the annual Society of North American Goldsmiths conference, SNAGneXt. The [...]

{source} Coming off a weekend of teaching at Interlochen Center for the Arts, where 8 participants and I dove into Deep Revision concepts for prose writers, I’m struck once again by how [...]

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 [...]