The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 23
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 23 Can you make money from your art? Is your art for money or love? Don’t we all have to eat and pay our bills? Living the creative life is a nice…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 22
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 22 Giving Back to God The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is one of my favourite books because it inspires me to live a creative life. Cameron writes about the spirituality of…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 21
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 21 It’s Not Too Late Are you a late creative bloomer? Did you wait until later in life to take the brave step and begin to live a creative life? I quit teaching to take up writing…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 20
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 20 Finding Time At this time of year it’s hard enough to clean the house and shop for Christmas without finding time for creative work. Fortunately a lot of us enjoy the creativity…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 19
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 19 The creative life means we are in it for the process, not just the final product. Too many people are looking to just create that one piece that will bring them fame…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 18
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 18 I’ve had two surgeries in the last month. The scars from the first one are beginning to thicken and into scar tissue. The latest ones are quite raw,but they’ll heal. Our creative…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17 Oh the cringe factor of reading my first book! It’s not TERRIBLE, it’s just that I see the errors, the poor writing, the ways in which I have changed as a person…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 16
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day16 I am an obedient sort of person. A rule-keeper rather than a rule-breaker. I always wait for the green light to cross. I don’t enter when it says ‘Don’t Enter.’ I want to…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 15
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 15 Being free from fear of being wrong is essential to the creative process. Too often our perfectionism turns into fear which turns into procrastination which morphs into atrophy. I have a book…
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 14
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 14 Today I’m having surgery and I’m surrendering to the fact that I will have at least a month or six-weeks where I can’t control my life in the same way I usually…