I met Nicholas Sailer just minutes after his presentation at Creative Mornings/Raleigh several weeks ago. He’d just rocked the space at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh talking about his new book “A Story Each Day”.

Although the handful of stories he read were riveting, just about all I could focus on were the mindset and processes he must have had in place to generate an original story every day throughout 2014, when his project was initiated.

In 2015, Nicholas posted each of the stories that he’d written on that date, from the year before. Throughout the year, he built a following for the project, launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish the collection, then had the project completed and in circulation by the end of the year. All this while working full time as a creative leader at Betabox Labs.

Nicholas is an accomplished filmmaker as well, having won recognition for a couple of short films, including an official selection screening of his film 'The Strong One' at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 2012.