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Notes and Gleanings: The Tao of Jesus, Ray Bradbury's Career Advice, and the Wisdom of Meaninglessness
Links, reflections, and curated reading recommendations
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Words Always Fail: On Writing, Language, and Reality
In religion and literature, words are only pointers. Glorious, magical gestures.
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New ebook: "Transmitting Vision: Essays on the Writer's Path"
A gift to all subscribers
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One Year of The Living Dark
On TLD's first birthday, a look at where we've been and where we're going.
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One Way to Resurrect Your Writer's Daemon
Practical advice for when your creativity seems comatose—or even dead
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Taking Authentic Action in the Eternal Now (Cosmic Creativity 3)
Real creativity has no goals. It emerges from the present moment.
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Beyond Belief: Reality Is Not a Worldview
A Sunday morning quasi-sermon on philosophical schizophrenia and waking up to what's real
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Cosmic Horror, Personal Reality, and Divine Enlightenment
An interview with me on the 'Against Everyone with Conner Habib' podcast
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Writers: Learn Your Craft
Being a writer includes learning the rules of your language.
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The Writer's Paradox: Personal Is Universal
What is deepest in you is deepest in others. Write from that.
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The Living Dark
The Living Dark
A writer's guide to the inner genius. Creativity and calling at the intersection of nonduality and the daemon muse. Written by a cosmic horror author and former English professor, now helping other writers find and focus their voice, vision, mission.
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