Susan K. Perry's Blog: Creating in Flow, page 38

7 Surprising Facts About Remembering

We don't think much about memory until we're old enough to have forgotten some portion of what we've experienced. And then we wonder why it's so hard to call up certain events, and so easy to keep remembering what we'd rather forget. A new book, The Act of Remembering, is enlightening...

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7 Surprising Facts about Remembering

We don't think much about memory until we're old enough to have forgotten some portion of what we've experienced. And then we wonder why it's so hard to call up certain events, and so easy to keep remembering what we'd rather forget. A new book, The Act of Remembering, is enlightening...

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Should You Do It Every Day?

I don't always write every day, but when I began writing professionally, I did work daily at my craft. There are good reasons to put in the time regularly: what becomes a habit is easy to begin each time, thus avoiding the competing habit of procrastination.

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Madness, Pluto, and Creativity

Pluto used to be a planet. Now it's not. The compelling story of how this smallish revolving rock was first discovered is told by novelist Michael Byers in Percival's Planet. In our interview, he talks about the process of writing fiction.

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The Truth about Pluto (and Madness)

Pluto used to be a planet. Now it's not. The compelling story of how this smallish revolving rock was first discovered is told by novelist Michael Byers in Percival's Planet. In our interview, he talks about the process of writing fiction.

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Pluto, Madness, and How to Write It Real

Pluto used to be a planet. Now it's not. The compelling story of how this smallish revolving rock was first discovered is told by novelist Michael Byers in Percival's Planet. In our interview, he talks about the process of writing fiction.

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Why I'm Afraid to Visit Paris

My first and only visit to Paris was many years ago when I spent the whole month of January there. I was only 17. For hours at a time I took refuge from the snow and cold by sitting in Boule' Mich' coffee shops and playing at being an expatriate writer...

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5 Intriguing Tips for More Creativity

Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within is now out in an expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author. Extremely popular for decades, the book contains relatively short chapters written in a conversational style that can't help but be liberating to the inhibited writer.

Happily, her chapter titles are seductive enough to be tips on their own, so consider these:

1. Don't marry the fly. Goldberg explains that sometimes we get carried away by a...

Writers Can Be Made, If Not Born

Born into a stifling upper-class social world, the little girl who became the famous author Edith Wharton was fascinated by stories from very early on. She wasn't poor, but she had much to overcome, especially a society hostile to women using their creativity in certain ways.

The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton: A Biography is a Junior Library Guild selection by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge. Aimed at young people, the photo-filled book taught me quite a bit. It's a strikingly elegant...

4 Psychological Truths Neatly Packed in a Novel

A novel by and about a psychologist who also teaches (The Good Psychologist) is life affirming, true-to-life, and warmly reassuring about the value of good therapy. Learn 4 important truths.

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