Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Sometimes a book comes along that gets under your cynical skin and takes you to a place where you believe in magic—magic that is waiting to be unleashed through you. Gilbert’s thesis in Big Magic is…
Have An Affair My husband’s been away for the last ten days and I’ve been having an affair. Now it’s not the sort of affair that you may think of when you read that word. I’ve been having an affair with…
Q Commons is a live learning experience that challenges attendees to stay curious, think well, and advance good in their communities and yesterday I had the privilege of attending the Perth event. One of the speakers spoke about the irrelevance of…
Well, here we are at one hundred days!* The journey I set out on is not the journey I anticipated, but isn’t that life? There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. Guy…
When I began this quest to complete a one hundred day creative challenge I wasn’t sure I’d get to this point. In the beginning it was an idea sparked by Hillsong’s Cass Langton and I decided to run with it. When…
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 98: Wide-Open Spaces She looked at me with eyes that hadn’t seen a decent night’s sleep in months. Her hair, tied back in a scrunchy, revealed regrowth that pre-kids she wouldn’t have put…
Sometimes we need to do something that’s counterintuitive. Sometimes we need to let go and jump. Jump into something new. Jump into risk and let go of everything that’s holding us back. To be truly creative, we must jump into…
To create art, you need building materials. Not just physical materials like canvas, film, or banjos. First, you need an internal supply of building materials like vision, determination, and inspiration. Products of the soul. Michael Gungor I’m re-reading Stephen King’s…
For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time to still be served,…
‘Is this scene about you?’ Lisa said, her brows furrowed worry-worn grooves. ‘Did this happen to you?’ My writing tutor, Lisa had just read a scene from a manuscript I’m working on about a woman who has an incident with…