Drawing From The Well - AJG BOOKS

Great day Creatives! In today’s podcast I explain why Drawing from the Well is being temporarily put on hold due. More than anything this podcast is an opportunity to say thank you from the very bottom of my heart towards every listener who supported in various ways. For now, Drawing from the Well's archive will remain on my website as I'll periodically post previously recorded episodes. This is not the end as I'm hoping to return in this format soon.

“What I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I’m feeling inspired. It’s mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.—Tom Wolfe

Happy Friday Creatives! In today’s podcast, Tom Wolfe’s life reminds us that the muse works the same for everyone, regardless of one’s background.

“I didn’t believe I was capable of writing a novel but a year later I sat down and it poured out of me in ten months.” — Linzi Glass

Happy Thursday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re encouraged to know that we have whatever it takes to release that creative expression to the world if we’re willing to sit down and dedicate ourselves to the process, regardless of the obstacles in our way.

“Every imaginative production must contain some element of risk.” — Paul Horgan

Happy Hump Day Creatives! In today's podcast we're reminded three truths: all fiction is inspired by the realities of life to one degree or another, there are risks in expressing these realities, and these risks indicates we’re on the right track.

“Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.” —Nancy Ann Dibble

Happy Tuesday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded that before our art can make an indelible impression upon our audience we first must present a thrilling opening to hook and capture them.

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.” —Vladimir Nabokov

Happy Monday Creatives! In todays podcast, be encouraged to know the story within you is already completed even before you enter your creative space. The challenging part is only to draw it out with focused patience.

“A lot of writing consists of waiting around for the aquarium to settle so you can see the fish.” — Abigail Thomas

Happy Wednesday Creatives! Today’s podcast: How to deal with creative blockage.

“It’s so easy to fool yourself into thinking that you’re working hard. It’s so easy not to write. So you use any trick you can to make yourself know there’s work to be done. That’s why I wear a jacket and tie when I sit down to write.” —Robert Caro

Happy Tuesday Creatives! Today’s podcast: do whatever necessary to don the mindset of one focused and determined to reach every goal.

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.” — Vita Sackville-West

Happy Tuesday Creatives! Today’s podcast: creativity is merely a hobby to occupy the time but the necessity to remain sane.