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 71: Share Writers are like magpies. We collect ideas, Pinterest pictures, articles, photos, quotes, books. Writers also share. Writers love to talk about ideas, tell stories, help each other. We form writing groups, work with critique partners, attend conferences and retreats and consult with colleagues. Writing is a solitary pursuit, so […]
100 Day Creative Challenge 70: Inside My Head One of the challenges of being a fiction writer is that I live inside my head a lot of the time. My characters accompany me in my everyday comings and goings. They follow me everywhere like toddlers attached to my legs—when I’m having coffee, listening to music, […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 69: Stay Seated Apparently I’m taking years off my life because I’m a writer. Research suggests that sitting in and of itself is a risk factor for poor health and premature death—even if you exercise regularly. When asked the secret to finishing his 500 page masterpiece The Power of One, author Bryce Courtenay growled, […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 68: Developing Your Voice On Day 61, I wrote that Finding Your Voice means finding out how to express your deepest thoughts. The next challenge is how to develop your voice with confidence. When we find our voice and the story we are meant to tell, it will flow from us. Developing it […]
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 […]
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. […]
