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I help readers and writers do two things: pay attention and be more intentional. As we pay attention and make intentional choices, we become better storytellers, and ideally, better people, too.
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Where Does Inspiration Live? (opens the original)
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Watch This Page (opens the original)
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I know it’s been eerily quiet here this summer, and I suspect it will be another month or so before you see much in the way of:Thoughtful decision-makingHelp paying attention to your all-the-time life as it relates to your writing lifeBalancing rest and work (multiple kinds of work!)Here’s why.I’ve had a change in my workload this summer, and it’s been a great one! However, it has meant that tending to my writing life outside of work often looks like not writing (which we all know by now is NOT
Connection through Creative Collaboration (opens the original)
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Have you ever wanted to fix a problem that had an almost impossible, or at least unknowable, solution? That’s the impetus for Adult Life Lab, a film and participatory art project created by artist and filmmaker Amy Scatliff.After more than two decades of filling notebooks with invented worlds and imaginative responses to the challenges of adult life, Scatliff decided to conduct a real-life experiment: What would happen if some of those inventions became actual objects and other people were invit
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