Dissolving boundaries expands my craft arsenal. Openness to new mediums and genres expands my ideas and problem-solving.
What if—for the sake of a good stretch and a cracked back, because we know that limbering the muscles is good for you—what if you challenge yourself to kick down some doors?
Here’s an exercise. Write your novel as a song. Here’s an exercise. If you could transform your short story into a painting, what would it look like? Here’s an exercise. Take that free-verse poem and shift it into a sonnet. Adapt your memoir into a screenplay. Imagine your screenplay into a comic book.
Your keyboard is a knife, but it is also a saw and a nail file and a screwdriver and a can opener. Growing too rigid in your thinking and practice will dull the possibilities of your creative life. If you defamiliarize yourself, you will in turn surprise and thrill your reader. Write as a multi-tool. {read}