Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Going Wider and Deeper

I just now reread my description of this blog: how I was going to use it in part as a way to spur myself to bolder action on my own current projects, asking others to do the same. By this I meant professional projects.

My, how I have strayed from that topic. And at the same time, not at all. Instead I've just broadened my own definition of current project.

Turns out my current project is recovering from a hysterectomy. (Much easier than writing a novel, in my experience.)

Turns out that creative courage at work is inseparable from the most deeply personal rumblings and shiftings. No great surprise--and yet I wasn't thinking that way only a few weeks when I began. What an innocent!

This blog is still about bold creativity. But not just at the desk or drafting table, not just at work. It's also about the deep workings of the process from its most personal sources, even literally gut level. I hope you also feel free to use this space as expansively as you will.