100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 39 Inspiration: By Appointment The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. Ralph Waldo Emerson In the name of research and inspiration I’ve been on Pinterest, Facebook, design blogs, writers’ blogs, watched movies, read myriad books, […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 38 Fiction That Changed Me 1. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables: The Anne books gave me so much pleasure and helped me learn that even if you are a person who seems to get in a lot of trouble, you can turn out to be a more understanding person as […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 37 Be A Weirdo Masaru Ibuka, who founded Sony once said, “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” Being weird is just being open to different experiences and ideas. We can all develop an openness to new experiences and step out of our comfort […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 35 Finding Your Brave I never met Ruthee Elisabeth Carnegie, but her words have impacted me. Her life has spoken to me thorough the lives of several of my friends. She battled with cancer for the last couple of years yet she inspired her friends to live life with fragrance and […]
Live An Amplified Life To amplify means to: exaggerate deepen heighten intensify magnify strengthen boost develop raise stretch jazz up There are lots more synonyms I could trot out, but you get the picture. Most of the time, life is made up of ordinary moments, the everyday moments that don’t get broadcast to the […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 34 A Revolution in Your Heart I’ve had a pretty crappy sort of day. It’s a New Year and I’ve had a setback with my recovery. I spent the day in bed feeling very low, sore and very lazy. At church tonight the sermon was about making progress and making […]
100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 33 Frame It! Build It! I’ve been on a road trip the last couple of days and, because I’m recovering from surgery, all I’m allowed to do is read. (Not that I’m complaining! Reading is my number one hobby.) Reading is my hobby, but it’s also homework. (Seriously!) I was privileged […]
100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 32 Appointments For Adventure New Year is traditionally a time when we reflect on the previous year and make resolutions or plans for the next. As a writer, I imagine the New Year as a blank page, one to be filled with potential stories, ideas and characters which will form […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FIVE: It’s Time to Dream It’s New Year’s Eve again. It only seems like yesterday I was sitting here at my desk dreaming about 2015 and its possibilities and now we’re in the final hours. I’ve never been one for New Year’s Resolutions […]
