A Beautiful Anarchy

AN ACT OF CREATIVITY

This book began as a book about the creative process. And because the creative process is what it is, and part of that is it’s reliable unpredictability, the book is becoming something else, something bigger, as I write it: a book about life as creative process. In part that has happened accidentally.

The more I’ve written—a chapter here or there—the more I’ve found unexpected connections between things I didn’t initially see. The biggest connection has been the way the principles of an intentionally nurtured creative process mirror those of a life lived intentionally and creatively. So while I started out to write a book about the creative life, I’ve written something much more about the created life, which is fitting because ...