There exists in almost everyone the call to create and the siren’s call to engage in addictive behaviors. I have listened to both; perhaps you have as well. The creative call is to descend into our pain, past and present, and turn lead into gold. The addict is simply pulled down into a dark abyss. […]
Writing from the Body: For Writers, Artists, and Dreamers Who Long to Free Their Voice
Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer’s makeup, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road to where he wants to go, I could only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto. – Ray Bradbury – Zen in the Art of […]