The Art of Holding Things Lightly

Your creativity shouldn’t be a yoke. It should be more like a feather that you hold in your hand.

Grant Faulkner

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Photo credit: Raffi Asdourian

I have a paradoxical proposal for you: Take your creativity seriously, but hold it lightly.

It’s a Zen koan of sorts, a riddle. So much creativity advice is about digging in, fortifying your commitment, developing…

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Grant Faulkner

Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month, co-founder of 100 Word Story, writer, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.