How Do You Balance Creativity and Career?
Anyone building a creative career is running their own business, serving as CEO, CFO, CTO, and every other position—including manufacturing…
Writing life
Making the Hard Decisions of a Writing Career
As creatives—and as businesspeople pursuing our creative careers—we face countless decisions every day. Most of them (hopefully) don’t carry life-or-death…
Are You Holding Back Your Own Writing Career?
If you don’t identify yourself as a writer you’re constantly pushing through lava to try to earn a title you…
Obstacles, Overwhelm, and the Oracle of Alex
One of the many wonderful things that has always awed me about dogs is how they teach us acceptance and…
Create the Career You Want
When we read a brilliantly written book, one that draws us in and carries us effortlessly through it, it’s so…
Are You Neglecting a Powerful Tool in Your Writer’s Toolbox?
People-watching is some of the most instructive work we can do for creating richly and fully developed characters on the…
The Liberation of Limbo
The moment you share your work with another person, hit send on the submission to an agent or editor or…
Take Back Your Own Story
Imagine starting your career in your early twenties at the very highest rungs of the ladder, having won a coveted,…
Fail Hard and Take It Easy
Writing starts out as pure enjoyment, but it’s a skill that is far more involved and complex than it may…
The Luxury of Tomorrow
How many days do you put off or cut short your creative time because you know you have the luxury…