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 up with. But, now she was a mum and priorities had changed. ‘I wish I […]
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 book On Writing and what’s striking me as interesting is the way he writes about how […]
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 our thoughts. We go off on amazing adventures and spend time with created characters—in isolation. […]
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent. Chuck Wendig My best day ever of writing was on the 8th of October, 2010 at Le Fontanelle near Siena in Italy. I sat on a lounger overlooking the Tuscan landscape. The sun shone on the vines and […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 78: One Wild and Precious Life When I was four I wanted to be a teacher. When I was ten I wanted to be a writer. When I was fourteen I wanted to go to Norway. When I was seventeen I had no idea of what I wanted to be […]
100 Day Creative Challenge 74: Story Promise When I was ten, my class went on an excursion to Woodbridge House in Guildford. As we wondered around my imagination fired. I pictured children running around the home, servants, workmen. I imagined myself there in the 1800’s. I was there. I could taste it. Smell it. Believe […]
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 the seat of their pants and just write. I tend to be a hybrid. Perhaps […]
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 sluggish for about ten years. Finally, I had a label I could give to how […]
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 […]
