The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 23 Can you make money from your art? Is your art for money or love? Don’t we all have to eat and pay our bills? Living the creative life is a nice idea and often an idealistic dream, so how many people actually make enough money from […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 22 Giving Back to God The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is one of my favourite books because it inspires me to live a creative life. Cameron writes about the spirituality of creativity as well as the practice. To her they go hand in hand. The Creator […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 19 The creative life means we are in it for the process, not just the final product. Too many people are looking to just create that one piece that will bring them fame or fortune, but for most of us, break-even or gratis is what we end up […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 17 Oh the cringe factor of reading my first book! It’s not TERRIBLE, it’s just that I see the errors, the poor writing, the ways in which I have changed as a person since I write those words ten years ago. It’s like that 80’s hairstyle that my […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 15 Being free from fear of being wrong is essential to the creative process. Too often our perfectionism turns into fear which turns into procrastination which morphs into atrophy. I have a book I finished writing a few months ago now and I’ve begun editing it AGAIN as […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 14 Today I’m having surgery and I’m surrendering to the fact that I will have at least a month or six-weeks where I can’t control my life in the same way I usually do. Knowing I was facing surgery actually prompted me to begin this 100 Day Challenge. […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 13 A small child chases a butterfly giggling and shrieking with delight as it flies away. He falls down onto the ground and rolls down a grassy knoll. More giggles erupt as limbs fling and fly around. Hi clothes are muddied and grass stained, a shoe once tightly […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 12 We don’t always set out to create something as a legacy or for eternal meaning. Creating comes out of who we are on a daily basis, even when we’re not aware of it. What can happen though is this—you create,make or design something and release it to […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 10 I haven’t had a great writing day for a while. I’ve done a lot of writing, but I haven’t focused on my novels for a couple of weeks. I enjoy everything I write —articles, blogs, novels, letters, cards — anything, but to have a day of being […]
