creative practice
A writer at sea, an editor on the dock
In my experience of writing, you generally start out with some overall idea that you can see fairly clearly, as if you were standing on a dock and looking at a ship on the ocean. At first you can see the entire ship, but then as you begin work you’re in the boiler room and […]
Step Into Your Real Work, Keep Going
Originally published at BostInnovation.com A few of us are fortunate enough to more or less choose our jobs and careers. We pursue advanced degrees, take time off after college or grad school, spend time building our professional networks, and wait for our ideal jobs to come around. Perhaps we are lucky enough to have financial […]
Want Your Project to Succeed? Take a Break
Originally published at BostInnovation.com Human beings are funny creatures. We carry around with us all these wonderful intentions about how to live, we generally give people good advice, and then very often we go and do the opposite thing. For example, I’ve been an active entrepreneur for almost three years now. If someone asked me […]
Simple is Hard, and You Can Too!
Originally published at BostInnovation.com I grew up believing in the idea that if something didn’t feel like work, then it wasn’t real work — it didn’t mean much, it probably wasn’t useful to anybody. We New Englanders like hard work. We live rather fast-paced lives, we shovel a heck of a lot of snow, many […]
Need More Self-Confidence? Start Freelancing
“She’s been everybody else’s girl. Maybe one day she’ll be her own.” –Tori Amos Say you want to become a writer. Not necessarily an award-winning journalist or novelist—though this would be nice, too—but simply someone who writes for a living. It doesn’t even really matter the profession; the key idea here is creative professional who […]
