Writer, producer, and mother Julianna Baggott shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the good, beautiful, weirdly-efficient blur that can streamline your life and transform your writing.

Poet and writer Victoria Chang shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that following an unconventional path can be a surprising source of creative inspiration and innovation.

Writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares the Five Things She’s Learned about writing and creativity – and about the artistic necessity to write from the emotional landscape of crisis.

Award-winning cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares the Five Things She’s Learned from a lifetime of drawing and writing, and from the fulfillment that comes with looking inward and observing of the world around...

Celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most fundamental relationships – with the land,...

Best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer Adam Gopnik shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the mystery of mastery – and about the ways that our humanity is...

Best-selling writer Daniel Handler shares the Five Things He’s Learned about Creativity – or the five things he had thought he’d learned, until life and experience suggested otherwise.

Acclaimed writers and interviewers Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro share the Five Things They’ve Learned from their own experience — and from the experience of the many creative figures they’ve met —...

Best-selling author Steven Johnson shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the critical tools innovative thinkers use to nurture their creative practice – and the five key questions consistently...

Writer, editor and performer Joe Randazzo shares the Five Things He’s Learned about cultivating creativity and collaboration – and about all it takes to consistently turn good ideas into great ones.

Best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative practice in ways that allow you to stay productive and feel most like yourself...

New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Strayed shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to honor your desire to create and see your projects through – even when life’s demands make doing so...

Poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to harness our emotions into the full force of our creative work — and how to put all that we’re...

Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the practical and spiritual techniques that have helped him to keep the faith and to keep going as a...

Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares the Five Things He’s Learned about honoring family as a source of creative inspiration – about being truthful in the service of mercy and...