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…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 57: The Overflow of the Wine Glass of Life The advice, write what you know, is often given, however, it could be written write out of what you live. Creativity is birthed in life. In spirit.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 56: Go With The Flow A theme has emerged in my last few posts about first drafts, about not getting bogged down by perfectionism, about not being precious about our creative work and today I’m being…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 55: One Bite At A Time National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an example of ‘one bite at a time’ writing. On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59…
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…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 53: Process Ten years ago I decided to write a book — so I did. I believed that my years of reading voraciously, studying literature and teaching writing qualified me. I wish I’d stayed as…