In this essay, one of America's most beloved storytellers provides advice on consuming media, thinking critically about it and applying it to your own work. We get real personal while trying to figure out who our respective "muses" are.

Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store:

• Zen in the Art of Writing
• Grinderman
• The Art of Fiction
• The Courage to Create
• Danse Macabre
• Trilogy of Terror
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Moana
• Field Notes (not a sponsor, yet, we just like them so much)

Additional Resources:

• New Canaan
• Lost in the Stacks
• The Conversation of Civilization
• Ray Bradbury and Zen in the Art of Writing
• Researchers Study Effects of Social Media on Young Minds
• Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity