Maybe online writing is like squirreling away acorns
"Practice telling and retelling your story. Over time, it will clarify."
On Creative Process
It wasn’t writer’s block. I needed a new workflow.
What had seemed like a willpower issue—(why am I not writing?) or an intelligence issue (am I not smart enough?) or a time issue (when can I write, I have a baby)—was really an issue of workflow and tools.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
"Perfectionism is a phenomenon, not a disorder."
The Rocket to the Sun: About Creative Process
When I was in first grade, my best friend David and I had our entire future figured out. When we grew up, we were going to design a rocket that would go all the way to the sun.
What would a different container for online writing look like?
Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the
Creative Process Manifesto
We deserve to put work out there that is still
ways of knowing you're making progress with your writing
Sometimes we feel stuck, but we're not actually
What's your weird writer thing?
One of the core beliefs of this experiment is we
The Coffee Mug Theory of Writing Process
This is just a little thought I've been
Visuals, layout, reader experience, and you
When I published my essay collection Even the Cemeteries Have