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 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 […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 58: Retreat As part of my plans for a new year, I set aside time for retreats. I spend time with a spiritual mentor at least twice a year. I attend some form of writing retreat. The last couple of years it’s been in Tuscany. (You can read about it […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 56: Go With The Flow A theme has emerged in my last few posts about first drafts, about not getting bogged down by perfectionism, about not being precious about our creative work and today I’m being encouraged not to over-analyse. I once studied counselling and found the approach very refreshing. The […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 55: One Bite At A Time National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an example of ‘one bite at a time’ writing. On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 PM on November 30. The goal of 1000 words a day is a manageable way […]
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 51: The Right to Write Quite a few years ago I taught a transition to study course for adults. Most of the students were people who left school at 15 years of age to work. They had all signed up to do a Diploma in Theology and had a few hundred […]
