“The Core of Beauty is Simplicity.” - Paulo Coelho

Lit Salon on simple approaches to jump starting creative work (and some reasons we tend to complicate it), plus a rudimentary nuts-and-bolts guide to finding and using Writing in the Dark's exercises

I write to you in the late afternoon today, from an Airbnb in Champaign, Illinois, with just one more day of driving to reach my home in Minneapolis.

Therefore, today’s Lit Salon is a simple one taken directly from an email I received from a reader just a few hours ago—a reader asking a nuts-and-bolts question about how to more easily find WITD exercises…