Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck's letter to his son changed the way I think about love, life and work.
The Process
The creative equivalent to a bump of cocaine.
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Start as close to the end as possible.
Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules of writing a short story.
Bang. Bang.
Elmore Leonard 10 rules of writing.
Keep going.
A poem about endurance.
An MFA in Grease Poetry.
Reflecting on my time in Hell’s Kitchen.
64x
A poem about rewriting the end.
How to live like a samurai.
Miyamoto Musashi's 21 rules for living with courage, discipline and honor.
Started from the bottom, now we're here.
How a busboy became one of the most celebrated cartoonists in the world.
Blocked? Take a walk.
How Charles Dickens confronted creative problems on foot.
Do not disturb.
The surprising correlation between introversion and creativity.
An argument for anonymity.
How a British adman wrote one of the best-selling books of the last three decades.
This essay cost me $25.
Palm readers, Barnum statements and the stories we tell ourselves in order to live.
Child of God.
A poem about going all the way.
Rowing blind.
Life's greatest returns lie inches from madness.
Grand theft art.
Why Quentin Tarantino steals from every movie he sees.