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 59: Safe Haven We all need a safe place to create. A place where you share your vulnerability. Sharing your creative work is vulnerable. It comes from the spirit and soul and heart and mind. If even our relationship with our work is fraught with insecurity and doubt and […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 57: The Overflow of the Wine Glass of Life The advice, write what you know, is often given, however, it could be written write out of what you live. Creativity is birthed in life. In spirit. In adventure. In learning. In experiences. In relationships. Too often in our busy lives, we […]
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 52: You Are Talented Sometimes I think we believe that to be talented means to be on TV or on stage or in print. Success is not measured purely on public profile. Neither is talent. I’ve worked with hundreds of people over the last thirty years as a teacher and […]
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 43 : dark night of the creative soul Are you a writer, painter, dancer, musician, singer, knitter, ceramicist or creative of any sort? Then I’m sure you’ve had days where you want to give up and walk away from whatever it is you’ve been trying to develop forever. I’ve had […]
