The Rocket to the Sun: About Creative Process
When I was in first grade, my best friend David and I had our entire future figured out. When we grew up, we were going to design a rocket that would go all the way to the sun.
Entangled in the Culmination Narrative
What to do with the seductive idea that it's all going to come together somehow, someday?
Creative Process Manifesto
We deserve to put work out there that is still in progress. This is still in progress.
We deserve systems for sharing and archiving our work that are weirder and wilder than a chronological list of every newsletter we've ever sent.
We deserve rest.
We deserve to re-examine
ways of knowing you're making progress with your writing
Sometimes we feel stuck, but we're not actually stuck.
How do we know we're making progress? How can we choose a way of looking at this that's right for us?
Table: Ways of Knowing You're Making Progress With Your Writing
Way of
What's your weird writer thing?
One of the core beliefs of this experiment is we deserve actual tools to get unstuck, not advice on what worked for whatever famous author or some cis white business bro telling us how to have better habits.
But I am sort of fascinated with the overall fascination around famous
The Coffee Mug Theory of Writing Process
This is just a little thought I've been playing with. I'm not sure if I'm ready to commit to this theory, but hey, that's what a theory is, right?
I looked it up just to be sure. A theory is "a
Visuals, layout, reader experience, and you
When I published my essay collection Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, I made the layout choices very intentionally to create a sense of spaciousness for the reader. Shea in the Catskills contributed artwork that further deepened the reader's spacious and reflective experience. I was asked about an