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100 Day Creative Challenge 77

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 […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge 76: Afraid

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 […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge 75: Sing or Thud?

100 Day Creative Challenge 75: Sing or Thud? Even when you love something, or someone, there are days when you feel less than enthusiastic, disappointed or inadequate. I’ve been writing for over ten years now and I’ve loved it, but I haven’t loved every minute! When you face rejection from publishers, take harsh, even valid […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge 74

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 […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge 73

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 […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge Day 72: Prescription

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 […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge 71

100 Day Creative Challenge 71: Share  Writers are like magpies. We collect ideas, Pinterest pictures, articles, photos, quotes, books. Writers also share. Writers love to talk about ideas, tell stories, help each other. We form writing groups, work with critique partners, attend conferences and retreats and consult with colleagues. Writing is a solitary pursuit, so […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge 70

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, […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge Day 69: Stay Seated

100 Day Creative Challenge Day 69: Stay Seated  Apparently I’m taking years off my life because I’m a writer. Research suggests that sitting in and of itself is a risk factor for poor health and premature death—even if you exercise regularly. When asked the secret to finishing his 500 page masterpiece The Power of One, author Bryce Courtenay growled, […]

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