Writing, Creativity & How-To
Welcome to the Writing, Creativity and How-To Department. Every creative operandi needs a modus — this one’s for you: We write, therefore we am. These are the prose and cons, how-to’s and “why nots?” of making creative work. I’ll be your Ms. Lonely Arts advice columnist.
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Beautiful Corpus
A young person recently asked me what they should write to make money. “Checks,” I said. Then I had to explain what a checkbook was. About halfway through the history lesson, I could tell I had lost them. So I…
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Manifest Your Manifesto
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” observed motivational speaker Jim Rohn. Well, hell. I spend much of my time with “creative people,” a professional hazard that explains quotidian lunacy of my life.…
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The Case for Outlining
Whenever I start a long-term project in earnest—be it a feature film, novel, or bank heist —I begin to embody it in various ways. Or, more specificually, the work reflects existing embodied phenomena in my life—like the werewolf in my…
