100 Day Creative Challenge Day 54: Kill Your Darlings William Faulkner once said, “In writing, you must kill your darlings.” Kill your darlings refers to parts of our manuscript (or painting or song lyric or music score) that we have fallen in love with but perhaps are not in-sync with the rest of the story, are […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 53: Process Ten years ago I decided to write a book — so I did. I believed that my years of reading voraciously, studying literature and teaching writing qualified me. I wish I’d stayed as innocent as I was then. Writing a book is actually as simple as just writing, […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 49: Creativity is Priceless I hear people say that if only they had more money they could really be creative. But, if we waited for money to create we’d never do it. What’s your definition of being rich? One of mine is being able to go into a bookstore or […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 47: Creative Community I belong to what I term My Creative Community. I’ve formed friendships with people of all different ages, from all around the world who have become my community. Creativity feeds creativity. Sort of like that idea of iron sharpening iron. We all need to belong, to feel […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 45 Write What You Feel When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, ‘How do you feel?’ and you say, ‘Oh, I feel okay.’ Then you write about it, and you […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 44: Leap of Faith Whether you have a particular faith or not, you will take leaps of faith on a daily basis. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 Creating anything is an adventure […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 42: Devoted Devoted a feeling of strong love or loyalty : the quality of being devoted the use of time, money, energy, etc, for a particular purpose If devotion is is defined as a strong love or loyalty what are you devoted to? My strong love and loyalty is to […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 41 Beautiful People Sometimes when we read Facebook, Instagram, Twitter posts and see the happy faces of people traveling, spending time with friends and family, eating at amazing cafes, looking like supermodels and creating the story of a beautiful life, it’s easy to feel less than. You see, we don’t get the […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge Day 40: Love Life Sometimes life sucks. We all have those times when grief, disappointment, resentment, bitterness, sadness, stress or just plain exhaustion make us question what life is all about. Today a whole town has been burnt down in the south of our state and I’m sure they won’t be thinking […]
