Do All the Undone Things
FOR SOME REASON, over the past weekend, a few things seemed to have become clearer to me — shredding old…
Category: self-help
One Guiding Principle for Creative Work
People will always tell you there is a proper way to do creative things. That your work should turn out…
Unselfishness and Creative Success
I can’t help it, but I regularly think about what makes some people successful in life (and of course, what…
Someone who saved me once when I needed it
As an adult, I have always been afraid of relating too much to a horror writer who I had admired…
Darkness and the shadow self
People often conflate ideas of darkness, shadows and horror, with ‘evil’. But something that is ‘dark and shadowy’ is not…
A backlog of bad memories
The problem of getting older, but also of having a good memory, is that you wind up with an incredible…
A Fear of Failure
What is one of the greatest fears that we have? The writer H.P. Lovecraft tried to tell us that it…