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  • You want to write but can’t find inspiration.

  • You can’t keep up a disciplined writing practice.

  • You find it challenging to structure stories in ways that resonate.

  • You want to explore writing to express your ideas, pairing it with other creative pursuits.

  • You want to make your writing stand out in a generic digital landscape, but don’t know how.

I write to help people like you overcome doubts and become more consistent, confident, and creative.

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Hunting The Muse
10 Ageless Ogilvy lessons for today’s writers and marketers
10 Ageless Ogilvy lessons for today’s writers and marketers

The principles of “the father of advertising," are still relevant today. Here are ten timeless writing lessons from the man himself.

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I Tried 6 Nootropics for Creativity — Here’s What Happened to My Writing
I Tried 6 Nootropics for Creativity — Here’s What Happened to My Writing

I tested 6 natural nootropics in a search for my ultimate writing supplement stack. But which ones made the cut?

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Hemingway’s iceberg theory: How to infuse your writing with subtext and realism
Hemingway’s iceberg theory: How to infuse your writing with subtext and realism

Hemingway’s stories force you to read between the lines. Here’s how writers can follow in his footsteps by infusing their writing with subtext and realism. 

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Brainstorming without the BS: 4 Creative sessions that actually solve problems
Brainstorming without the BS: 4 Creative sessions that actually solve problems

If you want to bring the best out of brilliant minds in the room or generate ideas alone, these are four magic brainstorms you can rely on time and time again.

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Stephen King’s writing routine: 10 lessons in being prolific
Stephen King’s writing routine: 10 lessons in being prolific

It’s hard to name a writer who has impacted culture and media more than Stephen King. But how did he do it? Let's explore his writing routine.

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Creative constraints: How limits inspire limitless creativity
Creative constraints: How limits inspire limitless creativity

Freedom is a killer of creativity. Limits are the spark that keeps our ideas focused, and brings them to life.

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The Museletter

Hunt creative joy and personal growth through insights on storytelling, creativity, and marketing.

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Hey, I’m Tom

My goal with Hunting the Muse is to help writers with the hardest parts of their craft: ideation, editing, strategy, and story.

How? By writing to teach myself—and hitting publish when I think it will help you too.

  • There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost.

    Martha Graham

  • The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels––that's creative living.

    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, well-known thing, which is over-looked by everyone, as something new.

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

    Albert Einstein

  • The person who learns the most in any classroom is the teacher.

    James Clear

  • A person who rarely gets bored, who does not constantly need a favourable external environment to enjoy the moment, has passed the test for achieving a creative life.

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • When we forget to use visualization and imagination, it is like not using our mind.

    Jose Silva

  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

    Pablo Picasso

  • Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worry. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.

    T. Harv Eker