Dear Writer Art Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters

But in today's dramatically reconfigured world

Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft

the doomed Soviet dog

Dear Writer Art Finding NemoDrawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience