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 […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 21 It’s Not Too Late Are you a late creative bloomer? Did you wait until later in life to take the brave step and begin to live a creative life? I quit teaching to take up writing full-time. I wish I’d done it earlier in life. I wish I’d realised that writing […]
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: Day16 I am an obedient sort of person. A rule-keeper rather than a rule-breaker. I always wait for the green light to cross. I don’t enter when it says ‘Don’t Enter.’ I want to do the ‘right’ thing. When it comes to writing the temptation to always seek permission […]
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 11 Each one of us has creativity lurking in the recesses of our minds. I’m sure you have times when you’ve itched to bake something just for fun or planted some new flowers in your garden because you liked the colour or maybe you’ve been loving colouring in […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 9 Collaborating With Ideas. Ideas come from all sorts of places. Songs. Conversation. Billboards. Books. Gardens. Pinterest. I’ve driven along in my car with the radio off and something has dropped into my head. The excitement rises. I can’t wait until I can pull over and scribble it […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 4 Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert is the latest book on creativity I’ve studied. There’s something about her down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is style that is refreshing. It’s not an artsy-fartsy, pie-in-the-sky book that leaves you feeling inadequate or squashed by the weight of the pressure to be creative. To […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 2 We all love something new. New makes me think of something fresh. Something shiny. Something exciting. When it comes to creative expression or inspiration, trying something new or approaching something with a fresh approach often sparks something new within us. Something that causes us to glow […]
