Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared. - The New York Times
I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t ... See more
The Creative Independent • On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms
Here you can see that there is some sense of character to the writing; the narrative voice it is written in is not my voice. I deliberately made is more poetic, trying to make it more transcendent, to sound like an old storyteller. There is a character to the voice but it is not a character who forces themselves into the story. They are simply narr
... See moreAndrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big - V
Inside Alice Munro’s Notebooks - The Paris Review
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