creative process

  • Who is witnessing your work?

    The following is a transcript of Episode 3 of The Divine Dissatisfaction podcast. Click here to listen to the episode. A few months ago, I wrote a blog focused on TV shows that capture the creative process. I’ll include a link to the post in my show notes, but essentially what I was talking about was my love for

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  • Reflecting on The Maple Leaves

    The following is a transcript of Episode 3 of The Divine Dissatisfaction podcast. Click here to listen to the episode. Last month, I realized that one of my projects was celebrating a significant anniversary. It had been a decade since I self-produced a workshop production of my play The Maple Leaves. This is a project that for

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  • Encased

    Encased

    This is a transcript of Episode 1: Encased from The Divine Dissatisfaction Podcast. Click here to listen to the episode. Here where I live in southwestern Ontario, we have, not often, but definitely more often than we used to, these periods of freezing rain. And on those mornings, I take my dog to the park, and we

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  • What’s possible?

    What’s possible?

    Just over a month ago, I started a new part-time job. It’s been a really wonderful experience, but even before I started, I could hear this little voice inside that asked: But what about the writing? Any newness in my life, any shift in my schedule or additional commitments seems to trigger that fear that there

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  • Creativity and Constraint

    Creativity and Constraint

    When I teach closed form poetry, I’ll often use a clip from Taskmaster, a British TV show that features celebrities (primarily comedians) competing in a series of often ridiculous challenges. Each task has specific rules, and most of the time there’s always some time pressure element, and that can lead to some spectacular failures, but

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