Drawing From The Well - AJG BOOKS

“Every story has a story.” — Patricia Hampl | Happy Thursday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded that if you have an idea or concept that won't go away that's the surest sign you're meant to share it with the world.

“Poetry demands surrender, language saying what is true, doing holy things to the ordinary.” — Pamela Spiro Wagner | Happy Wednesday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re advised to surrender to the worst of our creative impulses to eventually share our creative best.

“Deciding to procrastinate is deciding not to write.” — Ted Kooser and Steve Cox, Writing Brave & Free | Happy Tuesday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded that willpower is the greatest instrument in our creative toolbox.

“Writing is an ideal occupation if you’re rabbit. It gives you an excuse to stay in your burrow all day, and it allows you to explore problems like anguish and insecurity without having to solve them. You don’t need to have peace of mind to be a writer; in fact, the more troubled you feel, the more you have to write about.” — Mark Salzman | Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded that life’s daily responsibilities don’t need to defeat us, but instead have the ability to launch us into divine creative opportunities.

“If you are never satisfied with what you write that is a good sign.” — Brenda Ueland | Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded that even the struggles during our writing process can make us better creatives.

“Have patient with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.” — Rainer Maria Rilke | Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast we’re reminded that, as creatives, we already have everything we need to be a success.

“I never once encountered a student who didn’t worry, at some level, that a friend or family member was going to be violated, punished or crucified in a piece of writing… And it often afflicted young writers with classic writer’s block before they’d written so much a single word.” — Carol Shields | Happy Hump Day Creatives! In today’s podcast, we discuss what it means to walk the fine line of protecting and disclosing the sources, our family and friends, of inspiration and how’s that applicable as a creative.

“I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.” — Dorothy Allison | Happy Tuesday Creatives! In today’s podcast, we’re reminded that as creatives we have a purpose to expressing our creativity, amongst the many, its to share our voice, speaking for those who share our experiences.

“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.” — Annie Dillard | Happy Monday Creatives! In today’s podcast, we’re reminded that as creatives we have a purpose to expressing our creativity, amongst the many, its to share our voice, speaking for those who share our experiences.

“You have to have done that hard psychological work before you sit down to write.” — Mary Karr | Happy Tuesday Creatives! In today’s podcast, we’re encouraged to be patient when allowing the appropriate amount of time to pass to give us the gift of perspective to turn our creative expressions into works of powerful fiction.