We all have a story promise in us. Something sown deep within that seeks to be released. Perhaps some of you have that lump in your throat, that heart race, that visceral response in your body that tells you it’s time to make a promise. It may be time to give yourself permission to honour […]
It was 9am on the 26th of February 2010. I sat down at the kitchen table with a coffee and my notebook. I had an idea—an idea that I wanted to write a novel. I’d met a character in my early morning dreamtime. I pictured her. I heard her voice. I imagined what would happen […]
Sometimes we need to do something that’s counterintuitive. Sometimes we need to let go and jump. Jump into something new. Jump into risk and let go of everything that’s holding us back. To be truly creative, we must jump into our art despite fear. We must let go of what’s holding us back. We must […]
100 Day Creative Challenge 77: Continuous Creation Our lives are continuous creations. We evolve and change as time goes by. If aren’t changing, we’re not growing. Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life. Andy Stanley When I finished university […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 64: The Paradox of Busyness If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball I didn’t feel like I did much in 2015, but when I look back over my calendar it was pretty full. I […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 58: Retreat As part of my plans for a new year, I set aside time for retreats. I spend time with a spiritual mentor at least twice a year. I attend some form of writing retreat. The last couple of years it’s been in Tuscany. (You can read about it […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 54: Kill Your Darlings William Faulkner once said, “In writing, you must kill your darlings.” Kill your darlings refers to parts of our manuscript (or painting or song lyric or music score) that we have fallen in love with but perhaps are not in-sync with the rest of the story, are […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 49: Creativity is Priceless I hear people say that if only they had more money they could really be creative. But, if we waited for money to create we’d never do it. What’s your definition of being rich? One of mine is being able to go into a bookstore or […]
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 […]
