Category Archives: writers
On the Road
Whether we’re headed across town or across the world, travel removes us from normal routines and habitual thinking. We’re open to new experiences, uncanny encounters, and all the high strangeness the universe can muster. Travel is the door that opens us … Continue reading
Does Death Come in Threes?
We’ve talked before on this blog about how death among celebrities and the famous seems to come in threes. So here are two deaths we read about today. On Sunday, January 17, author Erich Segal, 72, died at his home … Continue reading
Time Travelers at the Scottish Festival
On January 16, we drove up to Orlando to attend the Scottish festival – a great outdoor event with bands playing bagpipes, men in kilts, and games dating back centuries. Various Scottish clans – like the MacGregors, the clan that … Continue reading
Indiana Jones Synchronicity
Dale Dassel and Dr. Jones The other day I was cleaning out a closet, which I usually do at this time of year, when I came across a box of bound galleys of Indiana Jones novels I wrote years ago. … Continue reading
Stephen King’s Dream
We’ve posted a number of stories about dreams and synchronicity and about dream and the creative process. One of our favorites is from Stephen King’s book on writing, On the Craft, where a vivid dream provided the creative energy – … Continue reading
Coincidence
Trish and I were in my office yesterday evening talking about some good news we’d heard about Seven Secrets of Synchronicity. I looked over her shoulder at a bookshelf and focused on a novel that one of us had bought … Continue reading
Waking Life As a Dream
I’ve been reading Robert Moss’s superb book, The Three “Only” Things, Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination. It was recommended by someone in a comment and I apologize for not being able to remember who it was. … Continue reading
The Ladder Writing Dream
This synchronicity comes from Nancy Pickard. Shortly after we picked her up from the airport today (Dec 7), she related a dream she had. +++A writer friend in the dream burst into song. Her voice was beautiful. But when Nancy … Continue reading
Those Google Alerts
Google Alerts are a venue for connecting people and ideas and often result in – look surprised! – synchronicity. Back in September, we posted a synchronicity called The Grasshopper that happened to J.B. Priestley’s wife.Recently, thanks to a Google alert, … Continue reading
Love, Mira
We’ve posted a number of stories involving synchronicity and creativity. The MO usually goes something like this: the individual is usually deeply immersed in a creative process of some kind and really plugs in to whatever he/she is doing. For … Continue reading