Creative Writing

Then taking it off, examining it, and putting it back on again — This article comes in response to Subhi Najar and their series of questions for writers. Thanks to Jonathon Sawyer for challenging me to have a go! Here are my answers. When did you start writing? Is there a specific story? There was a lot of writing when I was in…

It was at the height of his career that Gary became a minimalist. He’d spent almost ten years running his company, every day filled to the brim with activity — meetings, dinners, happy hours — rinse and repeat. He was wealthy. He was successful. He was thriving. Or so he’d…

What if everything we have learned in our lives has actually diminished our creativity? What if we are inherently creative as children, then over time lose much of that capability? That possibility is what I discovered when I stumbled across this blog post at Creativity at Work. In 1968, George…

—- the way you look at me has found its way into my vocabulary. I love science on a bone on bone kind of way. rubbing in this corticosterone empathy. do you exist? empathic judicial monasteries say ‘yes’. but they hardly know pain. let alone my own to let go of, or how my bound hands creak. I am waiting for the apocalyptic truth. that creak in the neck that resonates deep, down straight through the jaw.

My Bipolar Letter to the Month I Love to Hate — Dear June. I stand in awe… The birds are chirping, and the sun is shining. The trees hold tightly to their bright green leaves. The grass grows faster than we can mow because of the occasional drizzle of rain. The flowers make the most basic landscapes explode with vibrant shades…

Tips and tricks for playing with your sentence subjects — A lot of creative writers — even intermediate and advanced writers — struggle to create engaging sentences. Issues with variety in sentences can make writing feel dull and colorless, despite how exciting the story might be. One issue I used to struggle with immensely as a beginner-intermediate writer was the…

I have been a graduate student for the past decade. At the end of it all, a slightly terrifying realization dawned upon me. I do not want to be in academia! I say ‘slightly’ because unlike many who embark on the un-lucrative journey of a humanities/social sciences PhD, I did…

The process of creating can be exhilarating in one moment and soul crushing in another. Bob Dylan said: “Creativity has much to do with experience, observation, and imagination and if any of those elements is missing, it doesn’t work.” Experience: If you grew up in So Cal, you are a pre-med student in a college in La Jolla, and you write a song about a Coal Miner’s trip into the mine: it may be an interesting format for the song. The song’s lyric may have metaphors that you can…

I didn’t think too hard about anything; I would tell my heart I needed something, and it would present it in exquisite China. I came into 2023 blazing and content ready. Off the top of 2022 where I posted articles, short stories or interview sessions every week, I was prepared…