“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” ~ Orson Scott Card Metaphor cuts through mental chatter and confusion. 1. An artist who’s involved in too many outside projects sees her work as an apple tree with ripe fruit. It’s time for her to harvest her fruit. If she doesn’t,…
Metaphor is embodied wisdom. We commonly think of metaphor as something poets use to embellish their language, a tool of the left hemisphere. We also often dismiss it as “not real,” saying, “that’s just a metaphor.” But metaphor is much more than that. When we engage with a key metaphor, it connects us with a…
During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing. Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry. Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or…
Years ago, I found myself grappling with a problem that felt impossible to resolve. I tried every logical approach, but nothing seemed to shift. Then, almost unintentionally, I threw myself into a creative project that lit me up with energy and excitement. As I became absorbed in the creative process, that once-urgent problem gradually lost…
Creative breakthroughs happen when we perceive what lies beyond our ordinary ways of looking. Writing a fairy tale offers that much-needed shift in perception, opening up new realms of possibility that logic alone can’t access. Fairy tales offer surprising and insightful answers that can’t be found through the thinking mind. As I often remind my…
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