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Ever wonder how to tame your inner critic, especially when you are starting a creative project? Can your critic be useful to the process? Here are some anecdotes from seasoned writers.
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EPC — Beginnings
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Here is my fir
st podcast–appropriately about creative beginnings. I named the podcast Eat Play Cook (EPC) for lots of reasons. We need to take in good material (consume, eat), play around with it, and then cook it to create. EPC was also my first website, when I was teaching and traveling in Italy
10 writing tips — oh, alright, 17!
Your way is the write way. You don’t have to show your writing to ANYone. You can, but you don’t have to. Just writing for yourself is very important. You don’t have to READ what you write. In fact, it…
Restructuring time (growing your own skeleton)
Work creates a structure in our lives. A steady job circumscribes our time. Instead of circadian rhythms, we adapt to corporate rhythms, rising with the echoes of old punch clocks and factory whistles, timing our commute to the tides of…
Surprising God
Marrakesh, Morocco, in Riad Omar. Sitting inside a beautiful traditional red and green tent, having dinner on top of a riad in Marrakech, I am discussing the Call to Prayer with Jamal. Jamal is a shopkeeper who has offered to…