Trick yourself into writing

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

A soulful journaling practice that helps you find clarity, shift perspective, and reconnect with yourself, one turn at a time

Jonathan Clark links the decline of popular aphorisms to a disappearing shared moral code

We have wandered many months through this land of Building Blocks. It is time for a break. Learning is a weary trek. And writing is not all about learning. Writing is about, well, writing. The doing o

Oh, you want to hear about fairy-tale retellings? You want to know the secret of why I write them? Is that it? Fine. Come a little closer. These aren’t some enchanted beans I’m selling, this is the re

Forget boast-worthy experiences; the best things in life are done when no one’s watching – even if we wouldn’t readily admit to them says Lucy Sweet