This blog . . .

builds on a book I wrote about the creative process called UNCOMMON GENIUS. Based on conversations with forty winners of the MacArthur Award, or so-called genius prize, I put together a picture of how great work happens.
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soulofaword continues this quest to bring transparency to the creative process, especially as it relates to the written word. We use the back door here and enter through the kitchen to learn how good work really happens. Join us, every Friday, right here!

Photo credit: Patrick Hajzler.

Alltop, all the top stories

Short Stories and Essays

For the Birds, a new essay, is FORTHCOMING, Lalitamba Mandiram  (2012; annual)

Luke and Leonardo (Creative Nonfiction, No. 31, 2007)

Cure for a Hangover (The Massachusetts Review, Vol.46 No.1, Spring 2005)

How to Scramble an Egg (North Dakota Quarterly, 72.3, 2005)

Old Flame / An Essay in Eight Movements (Confluence, Vol. 15, 2004)

The Weather Report (The Baltimore Review, Winter/Spring 2004)

Pumpkin Man (Puerto del Sol, Spring 2003)

The Shoe Chronicles (The Distillery Literary Journal, July 2003)

An Ordinary Woman (Inkwell, Spring 2002; nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

A Thief, a Liar, and a Cheat (The Chariton Review, Fall 2001)

Talking to the Big Guys (Crab Orchard Review, Fall/Winter 2000)

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