#426: The Paradox of Craft
Quieting the critic; virtual book tours and virtual ship tours.
#403: Ludicrously Capacious
Exhalations and the space for new projects.
#375: Seeing and Forgetting
Robert Irwin, Taoist butchers, and near-final drafts.
#353: The Line of Charm
On challenges and obstacles.
#349: The Swing You Have
And other lessons from the course.
#348: A Most Difficult Game
On rediscovering golf.
#347: Creative Confidence
Reframing writer's block.
#335: Kenyan Runners and Creative Outliers
Is consistency overrated?
#332: Exploration, Presentation
An update on my new year's un-resolutions.
#327: Tin Men and Unintended Symbols
On reading The Annotated Wizard of Oz.
#325: Ewok Banquets and Hobbit Joy
On strife and joy in stories.
#311: Only
Writing relevant stories when the world around you keeps changing.
#287: Inundation
#284: Out from Storage
#257: Better Questions
#256: Atmospheric
#250: Entrance Room
Building the (fictional) house.
#244: Scaffolding
#243: Grown Wild
#238: Sentence Plot
#234: On Stones and Specialization
#232: Order of Operations
#230: The Effect is Real
#229: What’s the Same
#225: Thanksgiving Mornings
#221: Still Writing
#219: Embodying
#215: On Naming
#214: Meat on the Bones
#212: One Year Old
#209: Filming
#206: The Same Dog
#200: Who I'll Be
#196: Sauna
#180: Appreciating the Hangover
#164: The Living Story
#161: New Mountains
#157: The Added Comma
#156: A Novel is a Tree
#155: Defenderiness
#150: Sealing Portals, Dressing Wounds
#146: Coalition
#145: Hunt and Harvest
#144: On Receiving Feedback
#141: Embodiment
#138: Writing is Transformation
#137: What Persists
#134: Deadlines and Mother Projects
#133: To Breathe
#132: The Evolving Manuscript
#130: Confident Uncertainty
#128: Celebration of Intimacy
#126: Writing is Relationship
#125: The Cowboy and the Herd
#123: Saltiness and Losing with Grace
#116: Furnishing the Interior
#113: Seeing
#112: Mixing Metaphors
#109: Hands-free
#103: About Those Darlings
#99: The Second Time Around
#91: The End of Wet Work
#87: How Easily They Wash Away
#84: Outward Movement
#77: Void
#65: A New Cycle Begins
#52: On Love and Neglect
#46: Pop Songs
#28: The Ground is Shaking
On writing fiction as if it were memoir.
#25: The Archer and the Empty Book
#24: The Road is Already Written
#23: Ducks on the Lake
What Twin Peaks and Girls have in common.
#22: Macguffins, Parabolas, and the Thing Above
#17: Secret Rooms and Unseen Cities
What we see when we read.
#16: The Perfect Wedding
Two weddings and an epiphany.
#12: On Gathering and Digging
#7: People Shaped Algorithms
#5: Moving Upstairs
Cycles of collection and purge.