Category: Creative Process
Reflections on creativity, craft techniques, and my journey.
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Finding Creative Energy in Crows
4–5 minutesCrows symbolize creativity, even outside of their appearance in my work. Despite heavy revisions and distractions, including pets and parenting, they remind us to embrace the everyday sparks that ignite our artistic passions.
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Don’t Let the Void Destroy Success and Other Good Feels
3–4 minutesFor those who wonder how my actual writing is going, it’s awesome. Really. I might even start talking about it again in between posts on digital marketing. But the important thing is that things are happening. And I’m excited. Even if The Void is being loud.
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I Nearly Lost my Only Complete Manuscript Draft
3–4 minutesI needed to open an older draft of Thieves to look for a scene I wanted to rework into the new version. This file was totally fine last week when I had it open to pull a different scene. But not today. No, today it was corrupted. And entirely unopenable.
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Draft First, Outline Later
4–6 minutesMy main struggle with following an outline is that if things don’t feel natural when I’m writing, I get an itchy feeling under my fingernails. I can’t force myself to write through something I know isn’t going to work.
The AJSWITZY Project 