What’s Everyone Got Against Adverbs?
Is your writing adverb-free? I hope not. Here’s my case in favor of those lushly descriptive modifiers of verbs.
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How to Create Just to Create
Just create to create: It sounds so easy! But what if you can’t get in the flow? Here are seven tricks to inspire you.
How Collecting Art Is Also Collecting Stories—Yours
What does a photograph mean to me? To you? Photographs, like all art, elicit our emotions and our reactions, and the connections that we make with them. What touches me (because it has the value of my experience) may not be what moves the collector (you), who’ll be living with the art every day. When […]
On Searching for Brilliance
A short tale of finding what I wasn’t searching for, with a twist—of color.
Drawing Inspiration from Patterns
Looking at water for patterns, and finding them, or finding none at all, can be a source of inspiration and creativity.
Cursive in the Crosswinds This Week
Sometimes themes emerge and merge; this week, letters and cursive and sketching had the upper hand. Pick and choose from the stories in the crosswinds.