Calling yourself a writer is not easy. It takes audacity to even let the words leave your mouth. Harder still to believe and stand tall along side them.I am a writer. I am an artistI create. I bleed. I breathe. I write.There, I said it.And fuck, if I don’t still...
If the space is right. I can speak or write or dream or dance my way into truths I don’t yet fully understand. I can live inside of the questions and let them be sacred and fertile. I can allow the wanting of what is wanted, in that sliver of space and to name...
If you want to write, the most important thing I have to tell you is this: follow your urgency to the end of the earth. It is one thing that you cannot fake. Much of what I would tell you, if we were sitting down face to face, is all about the guts and fire and truth...
Write wild. Write free. Write the truth of you, no matter what they say. Write for the world. Write for yourself. Write into the void. Just write. Your story has the power to save us.
No red pens. Who gives a fuck about the oxford comma. There are no rules. What do we care about? Sovereignty. Truth. Grace. The legacy of your own sacred wisdom. The inherent value of your story, as it is. The innate importance of the messy, raw and real creative...
Art asks us to return, again and again to what is real. To honor the truth that lives more primally, below the pretty surface of things. Art demands that we dive full on into the multitudes, to embrace the contradiction. To not create only what we want to create, but...
I’ll take a hard truth over a gentle lie, every single time. I write to make peace with reality and to make peace with the way no peace can be made. I’m still learning that wanting a thing to be true does not make it so. Sometimes the wildest choice I make is to stay...
I spent a lot of time in the past year trying to work out the trick of writing a true story about love. I think I may have been coming at the whole thing a little sideways. You see, it’s awfully hard to live a true love story when you’re focusing your attention on the...
Some books, some authors, open up doors of possibility for me as a writer. They break down what I know of form and composition and the rules of telling true stories and reassemble them into something novel and unfamiliar before handing them back to me to say “here,...
No matter what controversy erupts, you’ll find that artists just keep doing what artists have been doing since the beginning of time. Pushing the edges. Exploding the margins. Making something so compelling you can’t look away even when it disturbs you,...
If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We break easily. Our words save us. Our stanzas keep us alive. If we loved you at all, we loved you truly. And you will never leave us but live under our skin and...
Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise and revise. We are always in the midst of our own becoming.
The less I know – the more the world opens up, wide and waiting. This is how I have come to understand the taste of freedom. I am filled with resistance. But still, I am here. One letter on this screen at a time, I am here. Neck aching and back bent and eyes burning,...
Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is permanent.
Deal resistance a death blow and make sweet love to your art all night long. Put on your fishnet thigh highs and your patent leather stilettos and your special occasion lingerie. Seduce the hell out of your own creative soul. It’s time for an epic lap dance. Dance for...
I’ve lost my wild heart once. Twice. Too many times to count. I’ve lost her most often when I’ve forgotten myself, when I’ve denied my own truths, when I’ve pushed down the need to create for so long that my heart…she finds better things to do. The funny thing...
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