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Upcoming workshops
Playful food writing, plus a 7 day program to give your creativity a boost I love this time of year for many reasons, but one of the biggest is the shift in energy I feel in working with other creatives. In the past, many of my clients worked in academia, and so this season coincided…
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Your inner creator wants to be decisive
Caring for yourself, first, turns your fulfilling creative future into your fulfilling creative present Paid subscribers: Read to the bottom to get your free pass to access Radical Creators plus 50% off everything else (everyone else, sign up here, or become a paid subscriber if you like occasional free classes!) Last week, I wrote about…
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Stepping into your radical creator energy
Becoming the kind of creative you dream of being is a spell rooted in intention and action This is a time of year when the world feels expansive, and where I feel a sense of possibility. Yes, even now. And, especially now, regularly attuning to that feeling of possibility, whether in my creative work or…
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Working with the elements to support your writing practice: Water
Simple practices to root your writing into the wisdom of nature Water is connected with our deep depths and our biggest emotions: Like air, it’s constantly moving and shifting, and asks us to connect into its energy as it exists in a given moment, rather than assuming it will stay the same over time. Working…
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You're already the writer you dream of being
How I handle big meetings with editors (or anyone else), rooted in practicality and possibility During a recent meeting, one of my clients asked how to prepare for navigating new-to-them writing spaces that feel scary: Think pitch meetings with presses they’re courting to publish your next book, meeting with a possible agent, presenting to a…
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Despairing about the state of the world may feel rational, but these are irrational times Everyone I’ve been talking to lately is moving through a sort of oscillation, wavering between intense hopelessness and sadness (personally or collectively) and a deep, unflappable knowing that everything is going to be ok. It’s a jarring feeling, particularly if…
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History requires us to be active participants in its creation. We aren’t just passive consumers of history, but active creators. Our daily decisions, our habits, from what we eat to who we engage with to our sleep patterns, clothing, and job schedules all become patterns that connect to the ways we define a given age.…
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We are living in a liminal moment. For the last few months, maybe a bit longer, everyone I’ve spoken to has seemed almost at the threshold of something. Some element, or maybe even most elements, of their life as it was have crumbled away, and while in most cases we recognize this crumbling as an…
Roots and Branches 