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Unconventional Muses: Book Recommendations

I've been creatively starved lately and I was replenished (and disturbed) by reading The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White...

Who's Your User Persona?

In marketing, a user persona (also called customer persona) is a semi-fictional person that is the ideal customer for a product or...

Love & Labor: An Interview with Alex Gallo-Brown

Alex Gallo-Brown is a poet, writer, and union organizer. His dedication to the labor movement is much needed leadership during our...

Tools for Virtual Collaboration

I'm enrolled in the Certificate in Storytelling & Content Strategy program at the University of Washington, and my fellow classmates and...

The Hourglass: Three Time-Bending Tools for the Writer By Reni Roxas

We all need time for our art. The author Michael Cunningham writes in the morning, “before the duties of the day stamp their urgency over...

A Hell of a Force: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young

Kristen Millares Young is a hell of a strong force. Her debut fiction novel Subduction (Red Hen Press) was celebrated by The Paris Review...

Organize Like a Project Manager

As a hyper-organized project manager, I’m always calculating my efficiency. So I was looking around my home office the other day to see...

2020: A (Garbage) Year-in-Review

An exceptional year has passed, to say the least, and good riddance, 2020! The hardest part of saying goodbye to a seriously f***ed up...

One Dope Dad: An Interview with Juan Carlos Reyes

Juan Carlos Reyes is one dope dad. He’s a hell of a writer and a literary arts advocate. He’s a board member at Seattle City of...

Find Inspiration on Instagram

Fed up with Facebook, I deleted my account months ago. And I find myself spending less time on my remaining social media accounts,...

How Does Art Solve Problems? Value Proposition for Creatives

For my day job, I teach business communication courses and my students recently learned about value proposition, a term to describe the...

Create and Collaborate With The Past

Classically trained tenor Jeremy Dutcher (Tobique First Nation) wowed my soul last year with his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa....

Stories from 'We the Indigenous'

What a splendid and magical evening celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day with four fantastic storytellers, including Laura Da, Sasha...

Write An Artist Bio (and more!)

Whether you’re a new hot mess or a creative pro, every artist* needs to write a biography (or update older bios). There are suggested...

Stay Real: Wisdom from Musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland

I randomly stumbled on the article Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Music for a Future That Never Came and found myself stunted by the...

The Benefits of Running Away

As a boy, I often fantasized about running away to explore the mountains surrounding Phoenix, Arizona, where I grew up at. During recess...

We The Indigenous: An Indigenous Peoples’ Day Reading

October is a busy month for readings I’m curating. In addition to Fight For Our Lives: Worker Rights! on Tuesday, Oct 13, I’m hosting a...

Resources from The (Indigenous) Writer's Toolkit Workshop

What a blast learning alongside the talented students who attended The (Indigenous) Writer's Toolkit: How to Launch Your Craft workshop I...

Step Forward, Introverts (Inch By Inch)

The destiny of the introverted artist is a mystery. And why is that? Because we can’t see you! Believe me because I’m introverted through...

Make Yourself Google-able With a Website

An artist without a website is like a farmer without a market. Farmers need to hustle their product, and so do you. Regardless of your...

50 Best Albums (or 3,780 Minutes Later)

I did it! I got through Pitchfork’s 50 Best Ambient Albums list. As mentioned in a previous post, my goal was to listen to an album every...

The Data Driven Application

Do you need to beef up your grant, fellowship, or residency application? Bulk up with data. With grant applications, for example, I...

Show Your Work (From Home)

According to my calculations, it’s day 3,359,094 into the Pandemic. Yet when possible, we push forward and create art, music, prose,...

Applying for Grants, Fellowships, & Residencies: Archive, Re-Purpose, Repeat

Applying for residencies, grants, and fellowships is a tedious process, which is why I print and archive every application I submit. Why?...

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