Guest Author 10/14/26 Guest Author 10/14/26

I LOVED My Creative Work! So Why Did I Avoid It for So Long?

Whit Lauren spent years beating herself up for procrastinating on creative work she loved. Then she swapped self-judgment for curiosity — and started asking better questions.

Guest Author 9/30/26 Guest Author 9/30/26

Why "Wish You Were Here" Is Rock's Greatest Song

Phil Allard on why "Wish You Were Here" is rock's greatest song: Syd Barrett's ghost, Roger Waters' restraint, and why the song works by refusing to fill in its own blanks.

Guest Author 9/25/26 Guest Author 9/25/26

The Difference Between Creating and Performing

Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on the moment she realized she wasn't creating anymore, she was manufacturing. On soul-driven work versus content engineered for approval.

Guest Author 9/21/26 Guest Author 9/21/26

How Well Do You Remember Your 5th Birthday Party?

Photographer William Josephs Radford on Transparent: six months removing his father from family photographs, pixel by pixel, and what that process revealed about memory, grief, and erasure.

Guest Author 9/16/26 Guest Author 9/16/26

Generation Is Not Production

Composer Klimenko VG on 20,000 generated versions, the distinction between generation and production, and why AI abundance makes human judgment more important, not less.

Guest Author 9/14/26 Guest Author 9/14/26

Can 300 Strangers Write A Book?

At 22, Matthew King started The Secret Entrance with a simple question: why do the random, spontaneous parts of life disappear as we get older? Experiment 001 is his answer.

Guest Author 9/11/26 Guest Author 9/11/26

Performer Spotlight: Mauricio Vanegas

Colombian circus artist Mauricio Vanegas on learning the Wheel of Death, fracturing two vertebrae and coming back, creating original tricks, and performing with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas.

Guest Author 9/2/26 Guest Author 9/2/26

The Valiant Alliance: Christopher Valentine Completes His Hero Trilogy

Christopher Valentine completes his Damara/Valiant Knight trilogy with The Valiant Alliance: a 1960s sci-fi hero story about hope, DC mythology, and what modern superhero stories have forgotten.

Guest Author 8/25/26 Guest Author 8/25/26

Collecting Decay: Why My Monthly Postcards Travel Without an Envelope

German artist Claudia Schmidt on Candy Decay: surreal paintings where skulls sit next to strawberries, and monthly postcards that travel without envelopes because they were never meant to arrive untouched.

Guest Author 8/24/26 Guest Author 8/24/26

Why Your Attention Is Your Most Valuable Creative Asset

Writer Oleksandra Fomichova on attention as creative currency: why inspiration doesn't disappear, why protecting your focus isn't selfishness, and why you're the one holding the hourglass.

Guest Author 8/19/26 Guest Author 8/19/26

Indie Author Spotlight: Jonah Baird

Autistic indie author Jonah Baird on using generative AI as an accessibility tool, writing three novels, and finally finding a creative process that fit the way his brain works.

Guest Author 8/17/26 Guest Author 8/17/26

Experimental Techniques: The Art of Not Knowing

Australian digital watercolour artist Phillip J Gordon on using mistakes as method, disrupting the grammar of a medium, and following the work past the point where it feels safe.

Guest Author 8/14/26 Guest Author 8/14/26

Back to the Oral Tradition

A high school English teacher and oral traditions scholar makes the case that podcasts, social media, and spoken word aren't new — they're humanity circling back to its oldest form of storytelling.

Guest Author 8/10/26 Guest Author 8/10/26

If I Was an Art Critic

Photographer William Josephs Radford reviews his own catalogue as a hostile critic would, dissecting the provocations, the try-hard concepts, and the grief that runs underneath it all.

Guest Author 8/7/26 Guest Author 8/7/26

Artist Spotlight: Stephen Willard

Graphic designer Stephen Willard lives in two creative worlds: strict design by day, and abstract digital art that maps the neurological chaos of epilepsy. On order, memory, and release.

Guest Author 8/3/26 Guest Author 8/3/26

My Life, My Quest, and the Nature of Reality

Fine-art photographer Madhur Dhingra on spirituality, consciousness, and the search that took him through Himalayan monasteries from Ladakh to the ghats of Varanasi.

Guest Author 7/22/26 Guest Author 7/22/26

Painting Starts Where Words Stop

Abstract oil painter Melissa Friendlich on flow, burnout, motherhood, and finding her way back to the canvas. Why abstraction became the language she'd been missing.

Guest Author 7/15/26 Guest Author 7/15/26

Remembering Kjell Nilsson: The Humanity of Lord Humungus

Kjell Nilsson, the Swedish weightlifter who played Lord Humungus in Mad Max 2, has died at 76. Remembering the strange humanity of the wasteland's most reasonable villain.

Guest Author 6/26/26 Guest Author 6/26/26

Nearly Burned Down My Uncle's Food Stand. Here's What It Taught Me About Writing.

Christopher Valentine nearly burned down his uncle's food stand. What followed was a reflection on Viktor Frankl, Eiichiro Oda, and why embracing your foolishness might be the best thing a creative can do.

Guest Author 6/24/26 Guest Author 6/24/26

With Love From Ukraine: The Visionary Art and Resilience of ShivaOm

Since 2012 Andrii Averin, known as ShivaOm, has created UV-reactive installations and sacred geometry art for festivals worldwide. A conversation about Ayahuasca, optical illusions, and making art while Ukraine is at war.