Tag: writing
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Dear Creative: Use Your Brain—Your Whole Brain, #17.2025
Dear Creative, I hope you are swimming in the sweet spot of right-brain creativity and left-brain refinement today. If not, I hope this letter helps you find the right balance, as successful artists often do in their creative process. While neuroscience has moved away from oversimplifying the right-brain and left-brain dichotomies, there is still too…
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Stay Happy. File Taxes #16.2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Friday! In today’s short yet sweet letter, my main aim is to remind you to file your taxes. And try not to pull your hair out as you shuffle through the process. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein. Yes. Even the brilliant, Nobel…
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Practice, Practice, Practice, Like the Greats #14. 2025
Dear Creative, How are you? I don’t want to interrupt your practice to become the best creative you can be, so I am repurposing my last letter to you. Finding the time and means to apply what works best for your work is worth any extra effort or time required. Leo Tolstoy, one of the…
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Dear Creative Use of Haiku, #12. 2025
Dear Creative, My cousin is a poet, and I didn’t even know it. During a recent trip to Atlanta, I sat still, captivated as I absorbed the elegant rhyming verses composed for his wife, who I affectionately refer to as my bonus cousin. (She’s a courageous stroke survivor whose recovery we rejoice in.) My cousin’s…
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Stay Happy #11.2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Friday! I have great news. New opportunities are emerging for me and considering them has postponed this message’s arrival. However, a stall isn’t a stop. I’m happy to present this short yet important note to you today that I had to learn the hard way. As creatives, it’s easy to forget the mundane…
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Where Will Love Take You? #10. 2025
Dear Creatives, Happy Love Week! This week, many of us will celebrate the virtues of love with heart-shaped candies, bouquets of roses, greeting cards, and candlelight dinners. While this is a tradition, I trust that many of us celebrate love all year, thinking of wonderful ways to express our affection for those we care about…
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What We Learn From the Great Maya Angelou, #9.2025
Dear Creative, My mind races with thoughts of current events, women’s rights in sports, and, yes, Black History Month. I hope you are well. My prayer is that this letter is received with the good kind of angst that fills my heart right now—the sort that sings, “We are not laboring in vain.” Prayers are…
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How To Please Your People, #8.2025
Dear Creatives, I hope all is well with you and your creative work. Thank you for commenting, liking, and sharing last week’s post with others. Your kindness gives me a jolt! Hey, isn’t that what Alexa says? Well, she stole it from us, and the statement is no less true. I really am energized by…
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Don’t Let the Wolves Eat Your Work, #7.2025
Dear Creative, I’m writing this letter to you on a Happy Wednesday! You may not find it in your emails or on this blog until days, months, or years later, but I hope this note will increase your joy whenever you read it. Moreover, I hope the offerings get you in the mood to write,…