HeyJaredDrawing the Chicken: Notes From a Creative Life
I’ve been writing, playing with clay, and teaching for twenty years. In this newsletter, I think out loud about what that my creative practice actually looks like — process over product, the long work over the quick result. Pull up a chair.
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What is “All The Things You Can Become”? (opens the original)
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As I read through my (not very large) newsletter archives, I realise this is the fourth time I am writing about “Voice”— and not only because I now do a whole workshop in it. I think so much about the idea of the writing voice, or the artistic voice, because it seems so simple — just write as yourself — and also so complicated. I see folks spending years trying to sound literary, and then I see how their funniest or most moving writing is in a text message or a story that was only for family. On
Upcoming Writing Retreats in October (opens the original)
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I have no idea how we are already in September 2026, but also, February 2026 was surely at least a year or two ago? At any rate, September means the end of the monsoons in our mountains, and the beginning of one of my favourite times of the year! October at Nomad Eco Retreat is bright blue skies, snow on the distant mountain peaks, and monsoon-induced waterfalls nearby. It is crisp sunshine through the days, and a crisper nip in the air in the evenings. It is the joy of sunbathing and the joy of
Drawing the Chicken 28: On Finding Language (opens the original)
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We recently adopted another dog. You’d think our home of 2 cats, an aging dog, and an 18 month old would be quite enough chaos (and it is, it is), but my daughter absolutely loves dogs— every walk around the neighbourhood is full of wide eyed “Mumma! Bow-wow!” no matter how often she sees said bow-wows. Our older dog is too worn out to play with an energetic child, so we had known for a while we would soon add to the chaos. Thanks for reading Drawing the Chicke
Drawing the Chicken 27: On Rest (opens the original)
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Today, I rested all day. I’m at the tail end of a month’s “downtime” I had given myself — after 4 months of teaching a longform online course, two offline retreats, finishing edits on my 8 year old manuscript and finally getting to see it as a typeset almost-book (YAY to the team at Harper Collins India!), curating 4 other offline retreats for the summer at Nomad, filing taxes for three different businesses/ non profits (UGH), keeping said businesses and nonprofits running, all the while being a
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