The path to alchemy
The route to alchemy?  There is none, there is no set path. As I understand this enigmatic injunction, we need...
When restraint liberates invention
Although this refers to art, it seems the same in other forms of invention: there is sometimes a curious connection...
Of abundant overflow
What causes creativity to spring forth? I like Seamus Heaney's idea that it is not so much reactive as a...
The aim of aimlessness
This made me think - surrendering to aimlessness to write poetry (and other things? A good letter? A story?). Perhaps...
Saying what you think and writing how you want
This, in particular the second part, resonated with me. In an age where Search Engine Optimization sometimes seems to want...
How making triggers invention
After reading a few wonderful books by makers and writers, I have come to the conclusion that their passing observations...
Podcast review – Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden
Listening time: 12 minutes. This is a biography of an artist written by a poet. It's also a...
Rules and writers
Nikos Kazantzakis, best known as the author of Zorba the Greek, pretty much wipes the floor with literary theorists, quite...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
Of detonating ideas
Does that ever happen to you? That an idea detonates over your head, shooting up like a colossal cartoon exclamation...
Diving in head first
Keats was a bold player, keeping his eye determinedly focussed on achieving enduring greatness, not on the fads and fashions...
Fewer means, greater mastery
Further thoughts on creative constraint. In this case, it seems a question of simplifying what you work with, to yield a more...
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