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Want to Craft Great Stories and Cultivate a Creative Life? This is for you.
A place where we study the greats to learn how to write, live, and run an author business
 • Nicholas Kotar
All the Advice You Hear about Writing Is Wrong
Bridging the gap between self-help literature, ancient wisdom, and the practical realities of being a writer in the 21st century
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The Vision Phase of the Creative Process
A free webinar in how to generate, cultivate, and grow ideas into beautiful stories
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How Projects in Work and Life ACTUALLY Get Done
The seven stages of the creative process, and how to implement them in your writing and your personal life
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My 5-year Struggle to Tell the Story of the Patron Saint of Atheists
A conversation with Richard (Dn Seraphim) Rohlin about creative inspiration and how it happens, sometimes...
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Out of the Silent Heart: A Fiction Writer’s Voice with Peco Gaskovski
How a writer can cultivate a creative voice in a world of noise
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Can you really unify a culture through shared stories?
Fairy tales, Rings of Power, and the lost American myth
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Becoming a Storyteller Might Be the Most Important Thing You Do with Your Life
"Narrative capture" and what you writers can do about it
 • Nicholas Kotar
The Role of Logos in Creativity and Art with Andrew Kern
A conversation that will completely change how you approach the writer's life
 • Nicholas Kotar
Is Creativity an Act of Spiritual Renewal?
Ivan Ilyin's incredible vision of a future renewal through art and philosophy
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Why I moved away from writing about Russian folklore and history
The harsh reality of writers hitting the limits imposed by constraints
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Why reading good stories is so important for writers who want to transcend their genre
Why reading good stories is so important for writers who want to transcend their genre
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Weavers of Story
Weavers of Story
Here, we seek the golden threads of universal human truth and yearning in great books, and I show storytellers how to use them to craft lasting, beautiful stories that transcend their genres.
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