100 Day Creative Challenge Day 93: Less is More One of the best writing classes I’ve been to was a business writing course. This may seem a strange choice of class for a writer of fiction to attend, but I’ve…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 92: Get Messy Why, when we know that there’s no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 91: The Three C’s Number Three: Conversation This week I had four writers at my home for a two-day writing retreat. There was time to write, time to talk and time to eat and talk.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 90: The Three C’s Number Two: Community: At the point where you feel like your craft is never going to be good enough, that’s where community comes in. Community is what helps you not to…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 89: The Three C’s Number One: Craft The creative life requires the ‘Three C’s’ — Craft, Community and Conversation. Writing is a solitary pursuit. We sit and tap away on our laptops for hours—alone with…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 88: Reasons To Write There are a hundred good reasons not to write. You have to steal back the time from your busy life and make your writing a priority. All art is in the…
What gets one hundred women out on a Wednesday night in Perth? Last night I was privileged to be a part of the Inpsire Collective’s meet up at the Little Bird Cafe in Northbridge. One hundred women whose only connection…
The more you write, the better you write. I’m writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. Neil Gaiman The more that you read, the more things you will know.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 85: Pain is My Friend Anything worth doing is worth doing well. We’ve all heard the saying and perhaps trotted it out at certain times in conversation. The truth of this statement is that anything…
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 84: No Regrets Regret is a word that means, I wish I had. Words carry psychological power. Afraid. Fear. Time wasted. Time slipping away. Plan B. Not saying yes. Something I always wanted to…