In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson Writers write about the human condition. Love, lust, murder, hurt, hate, blessing, cursing, adventure, regret, dreams fulfilled, dreams dashed, tragedy, comedy — the whole gamut of human experience is available for a writer’s attention. Lots of my friends write […]
I’ve just finished a novel that scared me. Not in a horror movie/suspense/edge-of-the-cliff sort of way. It scared me because it’s about an issue that is important to me, and to many others. But it’s controversial. It’s controversial because it’s an issue people are polarised over. Grace is a seventeen year old girl who thinks […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 79: Don’t Say Maybe Say just a simple ‘Yes, I will’ or ‘No, I won’t.’ Your word is enough. The Bible Maybe is such an open word. If I say maybe to someone they will hear yes. Maybe gives an out. It may or may not happen. Being on the […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 78: One Wild and Precious Life When I was four I wanted to be a teacher. When I was ten I wanted to be a writer. When I was fourteen I wanted to go to Norway. When I was seventeen I had no idea of what I wanted to be […]
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 76: Afraid Elizabeth Gilbert addresses fear in an extensive list of ways we may be afraid to live a more creative life in Big Magic. You’re afraid you have no talent. You’re afraid you’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or—worst of all—ignored… You’re afraid somebody else already did it […]
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 […]
