I've been working on a book about dreams since 2014. Think The Alchemist meets real people's stories.
Today, while working from a gorgeous co-working space during an uncharacteristically rainy day in Southern California, I hit the restart button on the whole thing.
Read MoreYou’ve probably never heard of “Jada Yuan,” but you’ve heard of the people she’s interviewed: Steven Spielberg, Taylor Swift, Mindy Kaling, Stevie Nicks, to name a few. But who she knows is not what makes Jada interesting – it’s how she writes; she is one of my favorite writers.
Jada is a storyteller – and I want to find out how she got so good at her craft.
Read More"Chaos is a ladder," so says Game of Thrones.
My goal is to meet the person who wrote that line.
Like all great art, there are a million ways you can interpret that line. Please, enjoy your own. But mine? Mine came to me like my first book idea jumping into my head while walking on campus - a bolt of lightning that feels like it's come out of nowhere until you realize it is something that has been building for 24 years.
Read MoreI woke up today and decided it was time to scrap everything on my website (isaadney.com) about the book I've been working on for two years and rewrite.
Over the course of these past two years, the book became something completely different than what it started out as.
Read MoreI am not British but I went to England for two weeks in college and I fell in love with everything about it. We did London for only a few days at the end - which was great of course - but what really captured my heart was the English countryside.
The gardens. The architecture. The very friendly people and scrumptious food that belied much of what people told me to expect about the place.
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