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 the secret to finishing his 500 page masterpiece The Power of One, author Bryce Courtenay growled, […]
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 and the story we are meant to tell, it will flow from us. Developing it […]
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 every winter until I was about 14 and then she gave up, relegating me to […]
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 book that compels you to write it– the one that you eat, sleep, and breathe. […]
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 legitimate procrastination. Dreaming is time spent thinking without borders. People often ask me where my […]
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 in 2015, but when I look back over my calendar it was pretty full. I […]
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 I naively thought that I would write a lot. I’m a person who loves to […]
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 thoughts. Erwin Raphael McManus When we learn our craft and progress to the stage where […]
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 planning for 2017. In the process I’ve been inspired again to write the truth of […]
