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On Being a Writer Book Club: Arrange

By Will Willingham 19 Comments

One Being a Writer Arrange

In our second book club discussion of Kroeker & Craig’s On Being a Writer, we consider the priority of writing and arranging our lives for a writing life.

Filed Under: book club, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

On Being a Writer Book Club: Identify

By Will Willingham 51 Comments

On Being a Writer Book Club - Identify

Join our book club of On Being a Writer and let’s discuss together the question, Do you call yourself a writer?

Filed Under: book club, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources, Writing Life

On Being a Writer—Tell Us Your Story!

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

On Being a Writer by Kroeker and Craig

Join us for our newest book club offering, a three-week community discussion of On Being a Writer by Ann Kroeker and Charity Singleton Craig.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources, Writing Life

A More Beautiful Question: Taking the Brain Off High Alert

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

A More Beautiful Question Book Club (2)

What if we took our brains off ‘high alert’ and thought long enough to develop an original idea? Our discussion of A More Beautiful Question concludes today.

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A More Beautiful Question: Improving the Questions We Ask

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

A More Beautiful Question book club

In this week’s book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question, ‘ we consider how to improve our questions before we jump to answer them.

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A More Beautiful Question: What If You Sleep On It? (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

A More Beautiful Question

Think you can do your work in your sleep? Warren Berger suggests that we might do our best creative thinking when we’re asleep. Join us for our A More Beautiful Question book club discussion.

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A More Beautiful Question: Thinking in Questions (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

a more beautiful question

What if we didn’t stop asking questions when we got to a certain age? Join us in our first installment of the A More Beautiful Question book club.

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Book Club: A More Beautiful Question

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

A More Beautiful Question

Join us for our next book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas’ considering how asking beautiful questions like Why, What If, and How can help us move forward in our businesses and personal lives, our writing, and our creative endeavors.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Living Inside Your Breath

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

the faraway nearby breath

What’s it like to live in a room created with one’s own breath? Join us for a look at how we make our lives in this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Tears and the Ice Queen

By Will Willingham 15 Comments

the faraway nearby the ice queen

Through Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Ice Queen, Rebecca Solnit shares the healing power and warmth of tears. Join us for this week’s discussion of The Faraway Nearby.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: Bodies, Betrayal and Love

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

faraway nearby rebecca solnit book club

We’re discussing Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, this week considering how pain is a necessary means to retain a sense of one’s very self.

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The Faraway Nearby Book Club: We Tell Ourselves Stories

By Will Willingham 35 Comments

the faraway nearby rebecca solnit book club

In The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit writes that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” In this week’s book club, we discuss the power of story. Join us.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Fairytales, The Faraway Nearby

Book Club Announcement: The Faraway Nearby (Rebecca Solnit)

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

book club solnit the faraway nearby

Join us for our next book club, discussing The Faraway Nearby. We’ll can apricots, wear shoes made of ice, follow Frankenstein’s journey, fly with the swan man, and wander the labyrinth only to reach our center and return to our beginnings.

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Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of Layoffs and Restructuring

By Will Willingham 18 Comments

poetry at work poetry of layoffs

What could be less poetic than corporate restructuring? In this week’s discussion of Glynn Young’s Poetry at Work, we consider the poetry of layoffs.

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Poetry at Work Book Club: The Poetry of Beauty in the Workplace

By Will Willingham 14 Comments

poetry at work beauty in workplace

In Poetry at Work, Glynn Young asks if work can have beauty. Some work seems to be the very spot where beauty expired. And yet, it’s there, if one looks.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, Poetry at Work, Poetry at Work: Bookclub

Book Club Announcement: Poetry at Work

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Poetry at Work book by Glynn Young

Our upcoming book club discussion of Glynn Young’s new book, Poetry at Work, comes just in time to celebrate Poetry at Work Day.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, poetry, poetry and business, Poetry at Work

Spin Creativity Book Club: Behind Closed Doors

By Will Willingham 23 Comments

blue door spin creativity

The stories from behind blue doors intrigue Claire Burge until she finally musters up the nerve to knock on one. Join us as we conclude our book club discussion of Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.

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Spin Creativity Book Club: The Darkroom

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

spin creativity book club

In our discussion of Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree we join author/photographer Claire Burge in the dark room to see what emerges.

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Spin Creativity Book Club: Creativity Needs Ritual

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

creativity book club

Do you have creativity rituals? What rituals sparked your creativity as a child? How does ritual foster creativity? Discuss “Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree” by Claire Burge with us in our book club.

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Spin Creativity Book Club: Where Do You Hide?

By Will Willingham 47 Comments

creativity book club

We’re giving creativity a place to kick off its shoes in the closet this week in our discussion of “Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, Creativity, Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree

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