Conversations and essays on creativity: where ideas come from, how creative careers get built, and the spotlight interviews celebrating creative work.
AI WritingIn 1969 a Gulf station handed me a cardboard Apollo lunar module. Here's how American giveaways rose and died with the 1973 oil embargo and the extraction era, and why AI and 3D printing are handing the tools back to…
CreativityToo many beds. Lovers to enemies. A curse only your enemy's kiss can break. Reverse tropes flip one part of a familiar story pattern, and they run on six repeatable moves you can use on any trope, including the one…
Book ReviewsMost people think ideas are the hard part. Belsky spent six years watching creative teams and found the opposite: everyone has ideas, almost nobody finishes them, and the gap has nothing to do with talent. He built a system to…
CreativityYou are not out of ideas; you are killing them too fast to notice. Stuckness is rejection, not emptiness. Learn to separate generating from judging, protect
CreativityLeadership is driving a school bus while everyone in the back throws shoes and pizza. Mike Merkur on being fired fifteen times, hiding the workshop from the customer, and using neurodiversity instead of fixing it.
CreativityA polymath works across many fields instead of drilling into one. Here is what the pattern looks like, the signs you might have it, and why it becomes an asset when the world changes fast.
CreativityA Room of One's Own Day is January 25, Virginia Woolf's birthday. Why a dedicated writing space matters, and a look at the office I built out of a dining room.
Book ReviewsOpen it to any page and you will see something no other writing book contains: full-color illustrations that teach story concepts prose cannot. The most visually inventive craft book ever made, and the best on imaginative fiction specifically. Diffuse, large,…
Character DevelopmentThe real enemy of creative work is not a dry spell; it is the toxic people who drift into your life and fog everything with negativity until the work stalls. I have dealt with them as a writer, a photographer,…
AI WritingRichard Lowe (The Writing King) appears as a guest on Interchain Live, cross-posted to the Are We Here Yet? podcast and the Innova802 network, for a long
Book ReviewsSome books teach you to plot or punctuate; this one teaches you how to keep going. Goldberg's idea of writing practice, getting words down to get past the paralyzing inner critic, has freed writers for decades, carried by a voice…
Book ReviewsA guided write-in journal designed to get a hesitant writer past the blank page, and pleasant at that one small job. But it teaches no craft, and its prompts are ordinary and available free elsewhere. A gentle on-ramp for beginners,…
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