Storytelling is Us

Author Henning Mankell, writing in the New York Times last year related how he came to live much of the time in Mozambique. Listening to old men sitting on a bench talk, he speculates: It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our...

10 Writing Exercises to Free Your Mind

For two years I wrote with a few other writers every Thursday evening. We were taught, and then continued on our own, with the practice of freewriting. Over the months, it became apparent that to keep out of patterns, to keep our inspiration fresh, we had to use...

18 Ways to Think About Creativity

Where do ideas come from? You don’t know? That’s okay, nobody else knows either. But what can we say about creativity? I have 18 thoughts for you. You are absolutely unique, and what you have to offer the world cannot possibly be duplicated by someone...