Anxiety and Creators

There are a lot of articles and books and videos and other mediums suggesting that anxiety is linked with creativity. Like this one from Writer Unboxed Or the Insecure Writer’s Support Group Or this video from Ira Glass where he says that most people give up...

Empathy and Creativity

I’m one of those people who when I watch a movie with sick people (whether puking, virus, bleeding, pustules, zombie apocalypse…well you get the idea), I feel sick myself. I’m empathetic, probably to a grossly exaggerated degree. And it’s not...

Writing on the Wall, Literally

I like to write on my walls. My friends and I put bible quotes on all our walls when we were teenagers (we even had a legit business name of The Writing on the Wall). At our last German apartment I filled a whole wall with Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice quotes. And...