Soothing the Ravenous Soul

For writers and creatives, the daily battles can be won not just through countless counter attacks, but with extra doses of self-care and time set aside for creative pursuits.

All the Colors and Textures of Travel

Wanderlusting and globetrotting fire up the heart and spark endless creativity, so energize your writing by grabbing your passport, holstering your journal, and getting out into the world. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din The airport is as busy as a beehive, cars come and go, passengers get out or get […]

Hell or High Water

For writers, the past is a bottomless well we can return to again and again, but what do you do with those painful memories that never quite heal?

The Space to Create

The perfect writer’s nook is as individual as the writer. Not only that, it can change as the writer changes. Train your inner writer to create under all kinds of circumstances.

Your Story Matters

Using narrative timelines helps writers find the pain points that can inform and elevate their creative writing and heal their soul.

Soul in the Sky

As writers, we leave our harbors and explore new seas to find adventure but also to find our way back home — smarter, stronger, and more alive than when we sailed.

All the Little Savageries

When freedom starts to take a back seat to responsibility and ambition, the writer wonders, “must I become a monster?”

Hell-Raisers and Truth Chasers

You don’t have to be a firebrand to change the world, just aim for the truth and write from the heart.

Flaming Out and Rising High

Just because you stopped writing doesn’t mean the story is over, every failure is just another opportunity.

Creative Killing Fields

As writers and creatives, we must protect nascent dreams and ideas from the vagaries and cruelties of the real world.

the daily creative writer

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed…”

Creative Writing