Eric Maisel

On Craving the Feeling of Meaning

[This post is the second in a multi-part series called Everything You Thought You Knew About Meaning is Wrong. To be in touch about it, you can always reach me at ericmaisel@hotmail.com or visit me at https://ericmaisel.com/. Please enjoy the…

Does Artistic Success Put You At Risk For an Addiction?

At first glance, it might seem that an artist who manages to achieve significant success might reduce his risk factors for addiction, since now he has fewer money worries and is less plagued by the chronic unemployment issues and chronic career…

Everything You Thought You Knew About Meaning Is Wrong: The Even Harder Problem

[This is the first in a multi-part series called Everything You Thought You Knew About Meaning is Wrong. To be in touch about it, you can always reach me at ericmaisel@hotmail.com or visit me at https://ericmaisel.com/. Please enjoy the series!] If…

The Twilight Zone

Everything You Thought You Knew About Meaning Is Wrong: The Even Harder Problem The amazing implications of the truth that meaning is just a feeling. The amazing implications of the truth that meaning is just a feeling.

How to Create a Launch Team

Whatever it is that you have to sell—paintings, prints, sculptures, crafts, etc.—creating a “launch team” may help you create buzz and help sell some of your inventory. How might this work? You simply invite folks that you know to join your “launch…

Nothing There, a Parable or a Riddle?

Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

Earthquake Country

Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

A Street Like Herb’s: A Story of Bad Luck

There is the occasional insane pain of an event that seems to have occurred only to mock you, that is proof of the existence of absurd, whimsical, malevolent gods who have targeted you as the object of their fun. Paul Madonna, the well-known San…

Herb Wilner

There is the occasional insane pain of an event that seems to have occurred only to mock you, that is proof of the existence of absurd, whimsical, malevolent gods who have targeted you as the object of their fun. There is the occasional insane pain…

Silent Respect

Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

South of Market

Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

Immortality and the Artist

It’s funny how language works. Take the word materialism. On the one hand, it means acquiring stuff. On the other hand, it is a vital principle in philosophy and physics having to do with a certain point of view about the world, that the world is…

The Bohemian International Highway

Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

The Fastidious Surgeon

If the surgeon wanted to write his novel, he was first going to have to kill off the napkin-carrying part of his being. [Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently…

A Writer's San Francisco

If the surgeon wanted to write his novel, he was first going to have to kill off the napkin-carrying part of his being. If the surgeon wanted to write his novel, he was first going to have to kill off the napkin-carrying part of his being.

Rudyard Kipling and Desire

[Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

Prove the Exception in 2023!

Want to prove the exception in 2023 and stand out from the crowd? Here are 10 tips for doing exactly that. And you might also like to engage in a year of creativity coaching. That would help, too! 10 TIPS FOR PROVING THE EXCEPTION Understand why…

Rodin at the Legion of Honor

[Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently seriously injured in a car accident. I am wishing him a very speedy recovery and wanted to share with you a few pieces from…

The Perfect Landlord

The beauty of a cottage of your own, administered by a blitzed, benign landlord, a cottage where you can live anonymously and write naturally. [Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San…

At the Green Apple: The Art of Getting Better With Practice

The task is not to get it right the first time. The tasks are to learn from your pratfalls, and, by learning, to improve. [Paul Madonna, the well-known San Francisco artist who beautifully illustrated my book A Writer’s San Francisco, was recently…