How do I make creativity my job?

Quite a few people have shared with me that they long for creativity to be their central, sustaining effort.  My sense is that folks are feeling transactional and burned out in their current employment.  Much of traditional work, and employer-employee relationships more generally, aren’t working for them.  They’re looking for something more balanced, respectful, human-centred, […]

Finding the right writing tone

Finding the right tone for your writing can sometimes feel tricky, especially in professional contexts, and especially if you regularly switch your writing for different audiences or forms. Often advice about tone is focused on the intent of your writing, or your audience’s needs, or even the expectations around the writing genre or form. And […]

Should you think about your reader in your writing process?

What’s the best way to think about your reader when you’re in the middle of your writing process?   Should you think about your reader? And if you should, how might you go about doing that? My short answer is: it depends. It depends a lot on the type of writing you are doing. To […]

Building Better Habits: it’s not all about you

The idea of developing good habits is de rigueur these days.  Personally, I am a “general” fan of personal habits.  I like some good predictability and structure in my days.  I brush my teeth every morning, I get outside every day, I eat my veggies.  Habits help me free up my thinking for more pressing […]