Exploring Life Newsletter (ELN) | March, 2021
What’s New?
Transformative journal writing is an approach to journaling inspired by deep creativity. Here are the first three articles in this series: a) Transformative Journal Writing; b) Problems with Journal Writing; and c) The Life of Words. Subsequent articles will explore various tools and techniques to add creative depth to journal writing.
What’s Next?
I am currently working on two core ideas of a creative practice. The first idea focuses on mental skills for creatives. My plan is to identify a core skill set for creative work. The second idea explores productivity for creatives. My goal is to find practical ways of organizing time to facilitate deep creativity.
Something Interesting
I wrote the poem The Space Between Words and Life to stimulate ideas for transformative journal writing. In an interview, Jane Hirshfield says, “Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.” (Jane Hirshfield: Why Write Poetry?)