100 Day Creative Challenge Day 63: The Art of Procrastination I revisited Capture: 30 Days of Inspiration by Amanda Viviers today. I had a retreat day with Amanda last week where I contemplated the year ahead with the hindsight of…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 62: Write Something. Make Something Just before Christmas I had two surgeries. One minor and one major. I was told I wouldn’t be able to do much for six weeks after the major surgery and…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 61: Finding My Voice I don’t know if there’s any feeling more frustrating than desperately wanting to communicate what is inside to another human being while knowing we lack the language to express our deepest…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 60: Reinvention and Redirection This week I’ve had two retreat days with my creative ninja friend, Amanda. One day was all about my work and today was about a rather ambitious project my husband is…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 59: Safe Haven We all need a safe place to create. A place where you share your vulnerability. Sharing your creative work is vulnerable. It comes from the spirit and soul and heart and mind.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 58: Retreat As part of my plans for a new year, I set aside time for retreats. I spend time with a spiritual mentor at least twice a year. I attend some form of writing…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 57: The Overflow of the Wine Glass of Life The advice, write what you know, is often given, however, it could be written write out of what you live. Creativity is birthed in life. In spirit.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 56: Go With The Flow A theme has emerged in my last few posts about first drafts, about not getting bogged down by perfectionism, about not being precious about our creative work and today I’m being…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 55: One Bite At A Time National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an example of ‘one bite at a time’ writing. On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 54: Kill Your Darlings William Faulkner once said, “In writing, you must kill your darlings.” Kill your darlings refers to parts of our manuscript (or painting or song lyric or music score) that we have…