VIDEO: Ray Bradbury speaks about WRITING!
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
Category: inspiration
Spark Your Creativity with the 5 Senses: Listen!
This is #2 in a series of articles on Creativity and Inspiration for Writers. Tips shared here are inspired by my ebook, Overcome Writer’s Block, and will soon also be part of a course at We Write Books community. How can we be a better writers? We can step away from the words and dive into our primal sense of listening!
Books Are Our Escape
Let me ask you something. Why do you read? I read to escape. I have a good life. But when I read and escape I actually find myself again, in a renewed way.
The Myths and Facts about Self-Publishing Teleseminar Today!
What is self-publishing really? And is it the right choice for us as writers? I had these questions too, and have done much research, and more importantly have taken the plunge. I am the...
What Can Creativity Do? Video Sundays
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
Spark Your Creativity with the 5 Senses: Go All Visual
Many authors turn to words for sustenance, and to feed their imaginative self. But they sometimes neglect to feed the part of themselves that nurtures their image making ability: visual art.
Stories of Strong Women: The Serpent Slayer
I am a young adult fantasy writer. My debut novel, Henrietta, the Dragon Slayer, will be released this spring! Yesterday I was making a list of all the things I thought my readers of...
Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce — TED Talk video
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
Structure and Creativity: Timed Writing
As a writer, I’ve often shunned creativity prompts. Why do I need them? I am so creative; I can sit down and just write. Ah! But it wasn’t always this way.
Fairytales Inspire Me: The Fairy Realm
Welcome to a new Wednesday series about fairy tales, fantasy and other topics that inspire me as a fiction author. To relax and get inspired, I like to read fairy tales. Modern, old, new,...
Writer as Hermit: The Archetype
I don’t have much to say right now. I’m feeling like the Hermit. Walking into a dark cave. Guided only by the light of my heart, mind and soul. Searching for answers only I...
Vulnerability is Messy: The Truth of Being a Writer
Authenticity. Be myself — everyone else is taken. Vulnerability is my strength. Words to live by. Words to feel. Words to fight. Conflict. External conflict. I’m not great at external conflict in my novels...
On a personal note, Is it really the New Year?
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t feel the year has really started yet. 2010 isn’t quite finished and 2011 has yet come. A no man’s land of time, where work needs...
In Praise of the Exuberant [a guest post]
IN PRAISE OF THE EXUBERANT And as you stand there Sunshining all over our Rain Parade Voice cheering Toes tapping Eyes dancing Let us now praise you. You, the mango-coconut in our vanilla world....
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