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To ignore a creative funk is to imperil your creative stamina. Here's how to take a time out to tend to your creative soul.

Sep 15, 20253 min read

Henry Miller's own Eleven Commandments of Writing helped him maintain his focus on work in progress. Can they help with yours, too?

Dec 4, 20241 min read

Knowing when to stop writing is a lot easier than starting to write in the first place. But it's simple: You just have to show up.

Sep 1, 20244 min read

"The work never never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with" — William Faulkner

Mar 10, 20232 min read

When you let go, you create space for something else to move in to your life, as Holiday Mathis told me in my horoscope.

Oct 29, 20223 min read