100 Day Creative Challenge Day 50: Just Do It! Anne Lamont famously wrote a chapter entitled *SFD’s in her book on writing, Bird by Bird. Lamont writes: The first draft is a child’s draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 46 God Jar Today I’m beginning my God Jar. It will sit on my desk as a reminder to put notes to myself in it that will represent my gratitude, prayers, dreams, problems and hopes for this year. I’ll fill it with post-it notes that I’ll read at the end […]
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 35 Finding Your Brave I never met Ruthee Elisabeth Carnegie, but her words have impacted me. Her life has spoken to me thorough the lives of several of my friends. She battled with cancer for the last couple of years yet she inspired her friends to live life with fragrance and […]
Live An Amplified Life To amplify means to: exaggerate deepen heighten intensify magnify strengthen boost develop raise stretch jazz up There are lots more synonyms I could trot out, but you get the picture. Most of the time, life is made up of ordinary moments, the everyday moments that don’t get broadcast to the […]
100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 32 Appointments For Adventure New Year is traditionally a time when we reflect on the previous year and make resolutions or plans for the next. As a writer, I imagine the New Year as a blank page, one to be filled with potential stories, ideas and characters which will form […]
