Hello, and welcome to my blog archive! This is where my creative journey began. I have now switched to sharing about the creative process in my podcast Stepping Off Now.
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2022
- Apr 29, 2022 Getting From Now to Someday
- Apr 15, 2022 What the Intuitive Process of Writing a Novel Looks Like
- Apr 8, 2022 How Depression Helped Me Conquer the Loss Aversion Bias
- Mar 25, 2022 In Which I Rage-Write About Writer’s Block Being a Real Thing
- Mar 18, 2022 When You Don’t Have the Privilege of Mental Health
- Mar 11, 2022 Finding Your People Through Finding Your Arena
- Mar 4, 2022 How to Judge the Value of Your Creative Work
- Feb 25, 2022 Creative Success Really Does Come Down to Just These Two Things
- Feb 18, 2022 Why I Gave Up on Ambition
- Feb 11, 2022 The Truth Is That the Creative Life Isn’t Very Exciting
- Feb 4, 2022 How to Stop Performing and Show Up as You Are
- Jan 28, 2022 Learning This Decision-Making Principle Will Inoculate You Against Burnout
- Jan 21, 2022 Why I’ve Committed to Making Self-Published Novels a Sizable Proportion of What I Read
- Jan 14, 2022 Think You Need More Self-Discipline? You Probably Actually Need Less
- Jan 7, 2022 What Would Betty White Say?
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2021
- Dec 31, 2021 My 2021 Retrospective (I Finished a Novel!)
- Dec 24, 2021 Are You a Creative Who’s Stuck in the Periphery of Your Dream?
- Dec 17, 2021 Get Friendly With Your Ultradian Rhythm
- Dec 10, 2021 When Putting Your True Self Out There Makes You Feel Anxious and Embarrassed
- Nov 26, 2021 No Time for Creative Practice? Learn to Listen to Your Energy Cues
- Nov 19, 2021 Why Do We Talk So Much About Goals?
- Nov 12, 2021 You Can Learn to Fiercely Protect Your Creative Practice
- Nov 5, 2021 Divergent Thinkers Have an On Switch
- Oct 29, 2021 The Protagonist Bias and Creative Rejection
- Oct 22, 2021 Doubling Down on Creativity in Difficult Times
- Oct 15, 2021 Are You Afraid to Put Your Work Out There? This Will Help
- Oct 8, 2021 How Group Shaming Makes Change Particularly Difficult for HSPs
- Sep 24, 2021 On Belonging
- Sep 17, 2021 Rhythm vs. Routine
- Sep 10, 2021 Labyrinth vs. Maze
- Sep 3, 2021 Change Your Future by Switching Out This One Word
- Aug 13, 2021 August Prospective 2021: Thoughts on Burnout and Breaks
- Aug 6, 2021 What We’re Missing in Our Conversations About Creative Entrepreneurship
- Jul 30, 2021 Are You an Analyzer or a Synthesizer? Or, What Robots Can Tell Us About Creativity
- Jul 23, 2021 The World Needs People Who Feel Empathy for Lettuce
- Jul 16, 2021 Movement as Part of Creative Practice
- Jul 9, 2021 Creativity Requires a Different Kind of Productivity
- Jul 2, 2021 The Semi-Ultimate Guide to Maintaining a Consistent Creative Practice
- Jun 25, 2021 Do You Remember When You Stopped Having Fun?
- Jun 18, 2021 Interlude: What I Do When I'm Just Not Feeling It
- Jun 11, 2021 Do You Seek Success, Mastery, Enjoyment, or Impact?
- Jun 4, 2021 Should Creativity Be Enjoyable (or Easy)?
- May 28, 2021 Breaking Into the Chocolate Factory (or Hogwarts, if You Prefer)
- May 21, 2021 At a Creative Impasse? Here's How to Use It to Move You Forward
- May 14, 2021 Did You Know That Flow Can Be Active OR Passive? Both Are Necessary For Creativity
- May 7, 2021 Toward a Methodology of Discovery Writing: What Is Flow and How Can I Use It?
- Apr 29, 2021 If You Are a Creator, Stop Worrying About Getting Your Product Out There – Do This Instead
- Apr 23, 2021 What the Heck Does a Dissertation on International Water Treaties Have to Do With Creative Identity?
- Apr 16, 2021 Creativity Isn’t Right-Brained (So You Can Stop Feeling Bad if You Are Left-Brained)
- Apr 9, 2021 The Difference Between Becoming More vs. Less of Who You Are
- Apr 2, 2021 Why Burnout May Be an Inevitable (and Positive) Developmental Stage for HSPs
- Mar 26, 2021 A Gentleness Revolution
- Mar 19, 2021 Give Boredom a Chance if You're Creatively Blocked
- Mar 12, 2021 My Favorite Three Pieces of Wisdom
- Mar 5, 2021 How to Be a Late Bloomer
- Feb 26, 2021 Toward a Methodology of Discovery Writing: What Does Discovery Writing Look Like?
- Feb 19, 2021 We Are ALL Part of the Burnout Generation
- Feb 12, 2021 Where Creativity Resides: Making Space For Your Essential Creative Self
- Feb 5, 2021 Do Intuition and Creativity Use the Same Cognitive Processes?
- Jan 29, 2021 Cultivating a Generalist Mindset for the New Era
- Jan 22, 2021 Sometimes Doing Nothing Gets the Best Result
- Jan 15, 2021 Is Being a Gentle Soul Actually a Benefit in Tumultuous Times?
- Jan 8, 2021 Toward a Methodology of Discovery Writing: What is Writing For?
- Jan 1, 2021 Creativity Is the Antidote to Burnout: A Creative’s Manifesto for 2021
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2020
- Dec 25, 2020 My 2020 Retrospective (Also: I've Launched a Podcast!)
- Dec 18, 2020 Intelligent Decision-Making Isn't What We Think It Is
- Dec 11, 2020 Why It Matters to Claim Your Identity as a Creative
- Dec 4, 2020 What Is Discovery Writing, Anyway?
- Nov 27, 2020 Why I Have an Intentional Practice of Wasting Time
- Nov 20, 2020 Reconsidering Burnout Using the Third Option
- Nov 13, 2020 Do You Feel Like a Late Bloomer? This May Explain Why
- Nov 6, 2020 If You Can Cultivate One Skill During Times of Upheaval, Let it Be This One
- Oct 30, 2020 Does Pursuing Your Own Happiness Mean Not Honoring Commitments?
- Oct 23, 2020 Solving the Paradox of Pursuing Our Desires While Detaching From Them
- Oct 16, 2020 Let's Stop Playing to Our Strengths
- Oct 9, 2020 A Thought Exercise to Help You Break Free from Overwhelm
- Oct 2, 2020 How to Steal Fire from the Gods
- Sep 25, 2020 Gentle Souls Are Badass
- Sep 18, 2020 Leveraging the Eureka Effect to Get Out of Stuckness
- Sep 11, 2020 We Have a Societal Addiction to Goal Setting and It’s Draining Our Joy
- Sep 4, 2020 Getting Lost Is a Creative Apprenticeship If You Tell the Story Right
- Aug 28, 2020 Does Shadow Work Really Help You Be More Creative?
- Aug 21, 2020 What Happened When I Decided to Stop Seeking Publication
- Aug 14, 2020 Life Lessons I Learned From Bungy Jumping
- Aug 7, 2020 How Giving Up on Productivity Can Help You Realize Your Creative Potential
- Jul 31, 2020 The One Thing I Got Wrong About "Follow Your Bliss"
- Jul 24, 2020 What It Actually Means When Someone Says You're Selfish
- Jul 17, 2020 How Creatives Can Use Crisis to Overcome Blocks
- Jul 10, 2020 Fall Into Your Flourishing
- Jul 3, 2020 We Should All Waste More Time
- Jun 26, 2020 Why You Don't Have to Learn How to Deal With Uncertainty Better
- Jun 19, 2020 No, We're Not All Broken
- Jun 12, 2020 Are You Still Searching for a Job That’s the Right Fit?
- Jun 5, 2020 I Want to Join the Fight for Social Justice, But I’m an Extreme Introvert with Mental Health Issues!
- May 29, 2020 How Do You Change Your Life When You Don't Know What You Want?
- May 22, 2020 There Is No Prerequisite for Success
- May 15, 2020 Why the Standard Advice for Empaths Sucks
- May 8, 2020 Embracing Peak Unproductivity
- May 1, 2020 Intuitive Creatives Are Optimized for the New World
- Apr 17, 2020 How I Learned to Be Unproductive
- Apr 8, 2020 Tarot Is Part of My Mental Health Toolkit
- Apr 3, 2020 I Thought I Had Depression, But It Was Something Else
- Mar 25, 2020 When You Have a Gentle Soul, the World Hurts You
- Mar 17, 2020 Introverts, Be Proud
- Mar 13, 2020 When You've Failed at Your Dream
- Mar 11, 2020 You Are a Real Artist Already