Isn’t it funny how we as writers experience a kind of collective tunnel vision? It makes George Orwell’s “groupthink” look like a gross understatement. Our acceptance of the “Great American Novel” as the benchmark of literary success has become so deeply engrained in our creative minds, that it feels like …
Our world seems full of organized challenges. Every one of them promises to help participants accomplish something bold and ambitious in a discrete amount of time. Whether it’s weight loss, getting organized, or quitting smoking, we want to meet great challenges, hopefully in a relatively short amount of time. For …
