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, […]
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 […]
November came and went like a blip on my screen. Thirty days have never gone so fast! I had several medical tests, a surgery, my son’s wedding, went to an author event, several dinners with friends, I wrote and edited several thousands of words and skidded into December like a runner into home base. I […]
The Dance Between Imagination and Structure Roland Fishman from The Writers Studio says that writing “is a profound dance between imagination and structure.” A plan and schedule for our work help us to structure our days and projects so we will be sure we will reach completion. Having worked in events management, I know the […]
Part One: The Dance Between Imagination and The Reality of Achievement New Year brings all last year’s resolutions to mind, along with the promise of a fresh start. As a writer I have goals for each year and the dance between dreams and reality is a daily battle as the tyranny of the urgent knocks on your […]
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein To live an adventurous life, you need to see the world with fresh eyes, like that of child. A child is filled with wonder, curiosity and imagination without the self-consciousness we develop as adults. That’s why reading a story to […]
