June 2012

Warrior Poet Blog

• The Liberating Power of Creative Constraints
  Hiatus over. I’ve had constraints on the mind lately. Time constraints, mostly, as I’ve been striving to take advantage of every opportunity that’s come along in recent months, plus train for a belt test, and contend with a bout of walking pneumonia in there somewhere. (Hint: The walking part is total b.s.) Which goes most […]
• Save Your Creative Life In One Hour Or Less
  File this under Things You Would Never Do: dump your entire life’s creative work in a pile, spray gasoline on it until everything’s soaked, and flip a lit match at it. We all have Days Of Suck when we feel like doing this. Following through, though? You just wouldn’t. That’s for drama queens in cheesy […]
• It’s A Small World After All: Audience & Reach In The E-book Age
  [Cross-post with Storytellers Unplugged] We forget the length of our reach sometimes. We underestimate the universality of our experience — of the truth as we know and tell it — and the potential for others to tap into it. And the more we remember the potential of stories to leap cultural chasms in a single […]