creative practice

I was lucky enough to work with crime writer Peter May on a soap opera many years ago. He had, for some reason, a baseball bat in his office. I never saw him play baseball.

On why developing a writing practice is highly beneficial, and how to go about it.

There’s a compulsion. Maybe it's writing. Taking photos. Making music. Whatever your compulsion is. How do you take it and turn it into a life doing it.

I've been reading about the idea of flywheels in business and have been thinking of how they apply to creative work.

On writing, memory, and the emotional heavy lifting sometimes required when working on a difficult story.