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 PM on November 30. The goal of 1000 words a day is a manageable way […]
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 fallen in love with but perhaps are not in-sync with the rest of the story, are […]
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 innocent as I was then. Writing a book is actually as simple as just writing, […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 52: You Are Talented Sometimes I think we believe that to be talented means to be on TV or on stage or in print. Success is not measured purely on public profile. Neither is talent. I’ve worked with hundreds of people over the last thirty years as a teacher and […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 51: The Right to Write Quite a few years ago I taught a transition to study course for adults. Most of the students were people who left school at 15 years of age to work. They had all signed up to do a Diploma in Theology and had a few hundred […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 50: Just Do It! Anne Lamont famously wrote a chapter entitled *SFD’s in her book on writing, Bird by Bird. Lamont writes: The first draft is a child’s draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 49: Creativity is Priceless I hear people say that if only they had more money they could really be creative. But, if we waited for money to create we’d never do it. What’s your definition of being rich? One of mine is being able to go into a bookstore or […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 48: Write Motivation Learning how we are wired and how we work is an important creative challenge and may just help us to get more done. I wrote my first book in a month. I’d finished work and dedicated a month to writing. I’d get up in the morning and […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 47: Creative Community I belong to what I term My Creative Community. I’ve formed friendships with people of all different ages, from all around the world who have become my community. Creativity feeds creativity. Sort of like that idea of iron sharpening iron. We all need to belong, to feel […]
