Ask Us Anything 2024
We’ve got another round of Ask Us Anything coming your way! We’re excited to tackle some of your questions and hang-ups, and we hope this conversation will give you encouragement and solidarity as well as some practical ideas to take back to your creative practices. We’re going to get started with some general questions about creativity before moving into some writing-specific questions and then we’ll end with a quick lightning round of our own because, well, we thought that sounded like fun.
Bio: Adrienne Garrison lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and their three little ones. Her essays have appeared in Coffee + Crumbs and New Millennium Writings, and her short story “No Longer Mine” was featured in LETTERS Journal. Adrienne believes magic takes the form of heart-to-heart conversations, petit-fours, and walks in the woods.
Molly Flinkman is a freelance writer from central Iowa where she lives with her husband, Jake, and their four kids. A lover of houseplants, neutral colors, and good books, she loves to write about how her faith intersects the very ordinary aspects of her life and hopes her words will encourage and support other women along the way. You can connect with Molly through the podcast she co-hosts, A Good Word, or her monthly newsletter, Twenty Somethings.
Links:
Andrew Simonet’s Making Your Life As An Artist (free pdf)
Not Doing It Alone, the results of his survey around outsourcing and hiring to protect creative work.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew Peterson
Want to stream the Behold the Lamb concert with us? Here’s the link.Ending the Endless: The Art of Ending a Personal Essay by Emily W. Blacker
How to Write the Perfect First Sentence for a Memoir by Marion Roach Smith
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
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