Archive - The Process

Pain recognizes pain.

A poem about empathy.

Oct 29 • Cole Schafer

When in doubt, read this.

I am not in a good place. And I am no writer.

Oct 28 • Cole Schafer

Before you knew him.

A letter to my goddaughter.

Oct 20 • Cole Schafer

Even Michelangelo couldn’t escape client feedback.

Oct 15 • Cole Schafer

A poem about what you crave but don’t need.

Oct 15 • Cole Schafer

If the knee does not bend, the leg will break.

Oct 15 • Cole Schafer

A race against the clock.

How Shel Silverstein wrote plays in less than an hour.

Oct 14 • Cole Schafer

Rewriting the end, again.

How obsessive revisions led to Ernest Hemingway's greatest work.

Oct 6 • Cole Schafer

Process > Outcome

How to let go of the outcome and get lost in the process.

Oct 6 • Cole Schafer

Quick, fast and in a hurry.

How William F. Buckley wrote against a clock.

Oct 6 • Cole Schafer

Hair power was once a dirty business.

How an 18th-century influencer ended Great Britain's political divide.

Oct 1 • Cole Schafer

Second language.

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami developed his style by writing in English.

Oct 1 • Cole Schafer

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