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Rachael Varca
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Creativity as Vocation
Why the creative act is what you're supposed to do, but maybe not as a job. Also, don't be so hard on yourself.
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Rachael Varca
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Part 3: Education, Information Systems, and a Coarse Culture
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Part 2: Information, BookTok, and Cultural Selection via The Revolt of the Public
Acts III & IV
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Rachael Varca
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Neil Gaiman, broken people, deviance, and making Gods out of ordinary men
Should we be surprised when our heroes turn out to be villains?
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Rachael Varca
Finding Time for the Muse Amidst Sleep Deprivation
Thoughts on creativity while parenting
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Creativity isn't dead, it evolves
In response to part of "We Live in Imaginary Worlds"
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Trusting that what you write will be read
It starts off as a tiny thought, just a glimmer perhaps that teases somewhere in the recesses of neural pathways, a bird working its way through the…
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What the Inklings had that other Writing Groups Lack
The pitfalls of working with others without a shared vision
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Rachael Varca
What happened to people's hobbies?
The bar was filled with happily chattering adults, most in their 20s, sipping beers or for more refined palattes, scotches and whiskeys, condensation…
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Rachael Varca
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If You Want to Write, Ch. 1
Ch.1 of Brenda Ueland's timeless wisdom, "Everybody is talented ..."
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When is "Enough" commensurate to satisfaction?
What makes something enough to satisfy us, or, sustaining in such a way that we are content—not necessarily comfortable—with the gift or feast that we…
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