Book Flight – Unconfuse Your Thinking

Book Flight – Unconfuse Your Thinking

Whether these books are old friends or new acquaintances, savor the ideas included in this book flight the way you might enjoy a flight of chocolate or fine cheese. How might slowing down and sampling a range of ideas in relation to one another reveal new insight? SIX THINKING HATS Edward De Bono...

Book Flight – Find Your You-Shaped Space

Book Flight – Find Your You-Shaped Space

Whether these books are old friends or new acquaintances, savor the ideas included in this book flight the way you might enjoy a flight of chocolate or fine cheese. How might slowing down and...

Book Flight – Live Your Epic Story

Book Flight – Live Your Epic Story

Whether these books are old friends or new acquaintances, savor the ideas included in this book flight the way you might enjoy a flight of chocolate or fine cheese. How might slowing down and...

How to Improvise: A Book Flight

How to Improvise: A Book Flight

For a long time, I didn't understand improvisation. I thought it was the art of being hilarious on the spot, and the thought terrified me. When I (finally) dared to learn more about improv, I...

Journey to Your Writer’s Heart: A Book Flight

Journey to Your Writer’s Heart: A Book Flight

From my MFA residencies and decades of SCBWI conferences, the largest takeaway has always been to write from my heart. Like most wisdom, this advice is simple but not easy. Sometimes, my...

What I Learned from Madeleine – A Book Flight

What I Learned from Madeleine – A Book Flight

Speak with me for more than twenty minutes, and you'll likely hear me quote Madeleine L'Engle. Sometimes you find that author, thinker, or artist that challenges and inspires you in all the right...

Asking Better Questions – A Book Flight

Asking Better Questions – A Book Flight

In my creative development, I've circled back to the practice of asking questions a number of times: as an actor, a director, a writer, a teacher. No matter the hat I'm wearing, the quality of my...

How to Develop as an Artist: A Book Flight

Whether you're a writer, visual artist, actor, director, or artist in any other creative medium, how might you build a mindset that helps you develop as an artist? Like any question worthy of a book...

Book Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport

As I've been thinking about heart, and how my heart shows up in my work, I pickedĀ up Cal Newport's book: Deep Work. What I love about this book is that Cal doesn't simply tell us that we need to...