“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a [...]
One in two Americans make New Years resolutions and only 8% fulfill them. Are you with the 42% that makes promises? Or the 8% that fulfills them? After the gifts, the choices, the paper tearing, [...]
Loyalty to craft, creative delusion regarding a work’s sparkling potential, and fear of failure is the grand trifecta of creative anxiety. Loyalty to craft and creative delusions lead to [...]
After writing my last article on protecting creative delusion, I lived happily ever after. And all this simply means is: I took my own advice (actually I took Neil Gaimon’s advice). It [...]
Hey rebel creators! There’s nothing better than a handy resource at the perfect moment. Here’s a little round up from my desktop to yours. ENJOY! Amanda Oaks has created a really [...]
ABOUT THIS PROMPT: This week’s prompt honors the emerging theme this week: our histories. It comes from a book about memoir but I think every writer can benefit from it – because who you are [...]
1 + 1 + 1 = 3 One of the biggest “problems” I had when beginning to write was overwhelm. I simply couldn’t figure out when and how much I was supposed to read, write, and revise. And I [...]
Hellos Hellos Hellos! Big beautiful hellos to all you writers and creative peeps out there living the dream (and if you’re circling around it that counts, too!) Last week, I wrote about [...]
I just read a blog post by Steven Pressfield, a highly productive creative writer whose stark and muscular writing style tends to float in on enormous angel wings. If you have not yet read his [...]
Whew! Poetry workshop with Vievee is OVER! The whole experience was amazing, transformative, surreal — as in . . . it’s like your sitting in your body without sitting in your body [...]
