100 Day Creative Challenge 73: Taking Thoughts For A Walk There’s a terminology that most writers know: pantsers and plotters. Plotters outline in great detail and research as much as they can before they write. Pantsers tend to fly by…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 72: Prescription The immunologist held out his hands, palms facing upwards. ‘You can choose between these two prescriptions.’ He’d just told me I had an auto-immune condition. It was the reason I’d felt run-down and…
100 Day Creative Challenge 71: Share Writers are like magpies. We collect ideas, Pinterest pictures, articles, photos, quotes, books. Writers also share. Writers love to talk about ideas, tell stories, help each other. We form writing groups, work with critique…
100 Day Creative Challenge 70: Inside My Head One of the challenges of being a fiction writer is that I live inside my head a lot of the time. My characters accompany me in my everyday comings and goings. They…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 69: Stay Seated Apparently I’m taking years off my life because I’m a writer. Research suggests that sitting in and of itself is a risk factor for poor health and premature death—even if you exercise regularly. When asked…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 68: Developing Your Voice On Day 61, I wrote that Finding Your Voice means finding out how to express your deepest thoughts. The next challenge is how to develop your voice with confidence. When we find our voice…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 67: Knitting I don’t knit. I have friends who knit and they make lovely hats, scarves and baby clothes, but I have not been blessed with the knitting gene. My nana tried to teach me…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 66: What won’t leave you alone? When asked for her advice to aspiring writers Kealohilani answered: Run! Just kidding. Sort of. Really, I think the best advice I can give is to wait for the…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 65: I Dream For a Living Steven Spielberg famously said: I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living. Daydreaming is part of the Art of Procrastination. It’s…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 64: The Paradox of Busyness If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball I didn’t feel like I did much…