Tavi Gevinson, Lena Dunham and Jean-Michel Basquiat have one thing in common: They were recognized for their talent at an impressively young age. Tavi was just 12 when her blog,…
You’re sore and bored, so you skip the gym. You reschedule an appointment that’s making you break out in hives. You take a rain check on that social event—your friends…
As a creative, I’m constantly trying to feed my passions and find the energy to engage in as many of them as possible. On occasion it becomes difficult to find…
I tell myself -- a lot -- that I need to stop watching so much TV. But I find it harder and harder to quit. Why is it so hard…
In 2014, my second full year as a full-time freelance writer, I had two interactions that underscored how weird and nebulous the industry I've chosen is. The first was with…
A single tumbleweed blows across a deserted Western town. A bucket creaks above an empty well. If any of these metaphors sound like your creative life, you're not alone. In…
The call of a freelance lifestyle is a strong one. Freedom and independence, extra income, the lack of a boss, the ability to work from home (or anywhere) — there…
The benefits of blogging are many, and, at this point, they're fairly well known. Almost any small business owner can rattle off the reasons to have one — a blog…
This month, thousands of writers will commit to grinding out close to 2,000 words per day as they take part in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, a writing project-gone-internet…
Maya Angelou said "there is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you," but how do you go about telling that story? Creativity and storytelling go hand-in-hand ––…