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The Imagineering Mindset

The Disney Imagineers are a group of architects, engineers, designers, and writers known for being one of the most creative think tanks on the planet. ...

Writing is Not the Center

What is the core value of your life? What is the “center”? For some writers, it’s their writing. Meaning, everything else is a sort of ...

Most of Your Words Are Coal, Not Diamonds

In J.R.R. Tolkien‘s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, we meet the creature Gollum, who is obsessed with the magical One Ring. Back when he ...

Writing for the Right Reasons

Sometimes we make a false distinction between writing for money and writing for pleasure. Both goals can be valid and important. What ties them together ...

The One Year to Live Test

We all know that perfectionism can be debilitating. It can rob you of the joy of writing and cause you to waste endless amounts of ...

You Can Always Fill the Glass

Writers are people who create things. We can literally create books, articles, speeches, podcasts, or stories out of thin air. It’s what we do. Why, ...

It’s Time to Let Go of Some Books

In your writing life, you will find that it’s easy to let go of some things, and much harder to let go of others. One ...

Resting: Create Space in Your Life

Over the past six days, we have been through a key cycle in the creative life of a writer: preparing, planting, watering, pruning, harvesting, and ...