Archive - The Process

A poem about being hard to kill.

Sep 3 • Cole Schafer

The art of the heel turn.

17 surprising pivots—and why success can be the hardest thing to abandon.

Sep 2 • Cole Schafer

Year of the dog.

A poem about the pleasures of pain.

Sep 1 • Cole Schafer

August 2026

A visit to the little black forest.

Exploring the unhinged sexts Napoleon sent Joséphine.

Aug 31 • Cole Schafer

Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck's letter to his son changed the way I think about love, life and work.

Aug 28 • Cole Schafer

Start as close to the end as possible.

Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules of writing a short story.

Aug 27 • Cole Schafer

Elmore Leonard 10 rules of writing.

Aug 21 • Cole Schafer

A poem about endurance.

Aug 20 • Cole Schafer

An MFA in Grease Poetry.

Reflecting on my time in Hell’s Kitchen.

Aug 20 • Cole Schafer

A poem about rewriting the end.

Aug 18 • Cole Schafer

How to live like a samurai.

Miyamoto Musashi's 21 rules for living with courage, discipline and honor.

Aug 18 • Cole Schafer

Started from the bottom, now we're here.

How a busboy became one of the most celebrated cartoonists in the world.

Aug 17 • Cole Schafer

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