I wanted to do a series on the creative season of winter. For the coming weeks I’m gong to be focusing on this theme, and kicking this off today with a conversation with

. All kinds of gems in this but as I dive deeper into working on my book, here is something Katherine said that has really stuck with me:

“We need to think really hard as creative people about how we allow ourselves to actually be creative. It's so easy to do everything but, and to be doing all this outward, shiny, jazz-hands stuff. Books do not get written that way for me. I need to shut it down. I need to not be living in public for a while.”

So with that… back to my cave.