100 Day Creative Challenge Day 68: Developing Your Voice On Day 61, I wrote that Finding Your Voice means finding out how to express your deepest thoughts. The next challenge is how to develop your voice with confidence. When we find our voice and the story we are meant to tell, it will flow from us. Developing it […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 67: Knitting I don’t knit. I have friends who knit and they make lovely hats, scarves and baby clothes, but I have not been blessed with the knitting gene. My nana tried to teach me every winter until I was about 14 and then she gave up, relegating me to […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 65: I Dream For a Living Steven Spielberg famously said: I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living. Daydreaming is part of the Art of Procrastination. It’s legitimate procrastination. Dreaming is time spent thinking without borders. People often ask me where my […]
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 61: Finding My Voice I don’t know if there’s any feeling more frustrating than desperately wanting to communicate what is inside to another human being while knowing we lack the language to express our deepest thoughts. Erwin Raphael McManus When we learn our craft and progress to the stage where […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 60: Reinvention and Redirection This week I’ve had two retreat days with my creative ninja friend, Amanda. One day was all about my work and today was about a rather ambitious project my husband is planning for 2017. In the process I’ve been inspired again to write the truth of […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 59: Safe Haven We all need a safe place to create. A place where you share your vulnerability. Sharing your creative work is vulnerable. It comes from the spirit and soul and heart and mind. If even our relationship with our work is fraught with insecurity and doubt and […]
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 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 encouraged not to over-analyse. I once studied counselling and found the approach very refreshing. The […]
