Susan K. Perry's Blog: Creating in Flow

When writing is what drives you, and it’s the one thing you know you’re good at—or want to be good at—even low points and thoughts of quitting can be overcome.

Why is it so hard to start on, stick with, and achieve your goals? Maybe you just need a little self-examination.

Writers often think they can enhance creativity by keeping their minds open to all possibilities. Yet it can be effective to limit your options to cut down on overwhelm.

“Genius Grant” honoree Rebecca Newberger Goldstein talks about her new book on “the mattering instinct,” a concept that’s surprisingly essential to individuals and societies.

Fresh insights about achieving success are inspiring. You can get closer to your goals, more quickly, by applying reverse engineering to your innate talent. Here's how.

Staying connected as a family can be a challenge when parents and children are all involved in their own activities. Here are 13 fresh ways to stay emotionally close.

Staying connected as a family can be a challenge when parents and children are all involved in their own activities. Here are 13 fresh ways to stay emotionally close.

Joint Chinese/American research team finds that flow activities increase well-being and reduce the worry of quarantine.

Many married couples have fantasized about trying an open marriage. Novelist Matthew Norman lets readers explore it vicariously, without danger.

Many married couples have fantasized about trying an open marriage. Novelist Matthew Norman lets readers explore it vicariously, without danger.