Drawing From The Well - AJG BOOKS

“The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement — if you can’t deal with this you needn’t apply." — WILL SELF

Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast we get real about what it really takes to have a successful career as a writer.

“Write everyday! Regaining momentum takes three times as much energy as sustaining momentum.” — Daniel H. Pink

Happy Tuesday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded about the absolute necessity of routine and practical ways to foster and maintain it.

"Not that the story need be long, but it will take “Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission." — Carolyn Chute

Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast we discuss how creating an isolated space imperative to a productive creative life.

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

Happy Friday Creatives! In today’s podcast: Angelou’s life shows us how all experiences, good and bad, culminate to impactful creative expressions.

“My country house is full of people, they never leave me alone; if only they would go away I could be a good writer.” — ANTON CHEKHOV

Happy Wednesday Creatives! In today’s podcast, we consider another practical angle to assist with reaching our creative goals. Copy and paste the link below to listen.

“I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words on the Civil War.” — Shelby Foote

Happy Tuesday Creatives! In today’s podcast, be encouraged to know that anyone can complete their goals by learning how to practically tackle them piece by piece and bit by bit.

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” — Henry David Thoreau

Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast we accept the challenge from the great Dorothy Parker to change negative paradigms concerning the editing and revision process, to instead see it as an opportunity to better ourselves as Creatives.

“I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.” — Kathleen Norris

Happy Friday Creatives! This week we’ve talked about depression and effective ways to deal with it. In today’s podcast, we talk about how our own creative expressions can be a tool to dig us out of the darkness of depression.

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” — Edgar Allan Poe

Happy Thursday Creatives! This week we’re talking about depression and effective ways to deal with it. In today’s podcast, we look at practical advice to help alleviate the chains of depression and reminded to make these keys a priority for the sake of our creative expressions.