Retreat II: Simplicity and Routine
Creative people often streamline their daily lives to reduce the need to make mundane decisions and to allow for more uninterrupted creative thinking.
Summer Writing Reset
Retreat I
A good retreat takes us away from what is normal and familiar. It provides quiet and simplicity and space for self-reflection. It allows us to look at ourselves and the world in new ways. It often is led by someone who has gone before us on a specific path.
What about your writing makes you go gaga?
If you are a writer or an artist or a creator of any kind, and what you are creating isn’t making you go gaga, if it’s not a place where interesting things are happening, maybe a different subject or place or idea is calling to you, one that you are drawn to because of who you are now and who you are becoming.
The Deep Work of Writing, part 3 of 3
How might we train, support, protect, and respect the need for deep writing? Here are just a few ideas I’m trying and hoping to put into practice…
The Deep Work of Writing, part 2 of 3
We can’t expect to be able to do retreat-level focused work if we aren’t training ourselves the rest of the time to be able to avoid distractions.