Protecting Your Creative Self

“If you’re going to be a writer long-term, you need to learn to actively protect your creative self. Many people have no idea what a creative self is because they don’t cultivate it. I sometimes envy these people, because they also have no idea how vulnerable that creative self is, and how difficult it is sometimes to take it out again and let it take chances when it got hurt so badly just yesterday. “

This essay is based on a talk I gave at Sundance One Day Writing Retreats in March, in connection with the yearly charity, Writing For Charity. It is probably my favorite essay ever at IGMS.

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