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The Stubborn Act: On Creativity in Times of Crisis
There is something strange about creating in times like these. The noise isn’t the kind you can turn down. It isn’t traffic or a television left on in another room. It’s the particular loudness of a media cycle that has learned to live on dread, the one that needs you frightened and refreshing the page,…
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Writing for Mental Health: Finding Creative Expression in Everyday Feelings
I began writing before I understood why I needed it. My first journal arrived when I was six, and I used it to record the world as I saw it: small observations, fleeting wonders, fragments of days. At first, I was simply documenting. Then I began to marvel. And somewhere along the way, writing became…
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NaNoWriMo and Rediscovering the Joy of Writing
A blank cork board on Scrivener holds so many possibilities. Every year I talk to fellow writers just around November, and we discuss the quiet dread that surrounds NaNo: deadlines, timeframes, word counts, ideas. Some spend entire October planing and plotting for November just to unleash the ideas and fulfill the daily quota. And for…
Myths & Stories 