Talking Morning Pages and New Creative Visions with Julia Cameron

The Artist’s Way has and continues to be one of the few books that, after many years, I go to for inspiration about trusting myself, especially when I’m emerging onto (into?) a new phase in my creative life. My tendency, when change is underfoot, is to think I should harbor zip-zero-nada anxiety about changing. About [...]

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The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Jim Ruland

[Such terrific insights about the writerly process. ] The writer on finding his place, there being no such thing as “I feel like it“ and what he cherishes most about writing. Jim Ruland is the author of the short story collection, Big Lonesome, and creator and host of Vermin on the Mount, a popular and [...]

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The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Judith Handelsman Smith

I trust my own instincts. I know the little niggle inside that is telling me what is true and what isn’t. If I don’t, I trust I will figure it out. I know everything is in process all the time. I trust my intuition, my feelings and follow them. I wrestle with everything emotionally. It [...]

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The 5-Question [Author+Chef] Interview: Monica Bhide

The author discusses how memory sparks creation, staying true to what she loves and the unexpected benefits of uncertainty. Monica Bhide is a chef, cooking teacher, prolific food writer and essayist. She writes a food column for the Washington Post, and her recipes and work also appear at NPR.org. She also has two masters degrees—in [...]

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Conception on the Page

by Amy Wallen If a woman is trying to get pregnant, maybe taking fertility drugs, checking her ovulation cycle and temperature at regular intervals, or even getting the painful injections of fertility drugs, it would seem insensitive to ask her “So, pregnant yet?” But no one finds this same kind of sensitivity necessary when a [...]

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The 5-Question [Screenwriter+Author+Therapist for Creative Issues] Interview: Dennis Palumbo

The screenwriter, author and therapist talks about writing what you love, building a tolerance to rejection and inviting in the shadow side. ♦ Dennis Palumbo is the author of Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within—one of my absolute favorite books on writing (I have an autographed copy). [...]

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The 5-Question [Screenwriter] Interview: Lynn Isenberg

The writer talks about trusting intuition, never trying to please the crowd and writing in rooms with beds in them. Lynn Isenberg is the author of the The Funeral Planner (Red Dress Ink Novels) which Booklist called “. . . a hilarious comedy of love and fulfillment in unexpected places.” She also wrote The Funeral [...]

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The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Tod Goldberg

The author contemplates chaos and rumination, and generously answers questions about process, fear and his truth on pushing forward versus hitting a stride. TOD GOLDBERG is the author of seven books, including the novels Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Fake Liar Cheat and the popular Burn Notice series. [...]

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