creative process

4 min read 2022-07-05 16:11:22

How it all started

my artist journeyhow it all started…When I ask my community how they feel about the word artist, many of you tell me that it’s scary,

6 min read 2022-06-29 01:09:24

Are we all writing historical fiction, but the history is invented? When I was working as the Forgotten Realms novel line editor at Wizards of the

8 min read 2022-06-24 18:40:26

following a trail of magic Hello beautiful artsy soul!I am back after a delight-full, wonder-full and utterly magical retreat in the

5 min read 2022-06-22 00:58:10

If you follow me on GoodReads you’ll know that I set up a Reading Challenge every year, and for most of the past few years I’ve actually

2 min read 2022-06-15 00:28:03

Even if you aren’t writing hardboiled detective, crime, or mystery stories, I think pulp grandmaster Raymond Chandler’s 1950 introduction to

4 min read 2022-06-10 22:17:51

the practice of beauty spotting poppies in the village hello my creative friend,Are you feeling inspired these days? Lately I'm

5 min read 2022-06-08 00:22:50

Some more from the old online worldbuilding course… If we begin with the basic concept that no one literally speaks English in either Westeros or

3 min read 2022-06-01 01:15:39

In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway told us that, “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” And from there, at least, came generations of

6 min read 2022-05-27 23:15:03

how to create an inspiration wall in your creative space Hello beautiful artist! Lately the studio got a little out of hand, with

2 min read 2022-05-25 01:14:40

This week, I’d like to mine some material from my now defunct online Worldbuilding course. This, on the subject of magic in fantasy, and to some

7 min read 2022-05-21 16:06:33

let's open the book a flip-through video of my art journal Hello beautiful artist! You might remember I recently finished my art journal

3 min read 2022-05-18 01:22:33

It would not be entirely correct to say that, for some decades now, my “day job” has been as an editor. To say “day job” means that it’s

8 min read 2022-05-13 16:29:09

hiding places a new page & a new class! Hello my creative friend!Today I have something extra special to share with you: a new

5 min read 2022-05-11 01:03:43

When I first started writing—seriously writing—and started getting published, the internet was still a mostly hidden thing used by scientists and

4 min read 2022-05-06 22:11:00

the making of the last page with a process video! Hello beautiful artist! It's so good to be back home after a magical week with