100 Day Creative Challenge Day 89: The Three C’s Number One: Craft The creative life requires the ‘Three C’s’ — Craft, Community and Conversation. Writing is a solitary pursuit. We sit and tap away on our laptops for hours—alone with our thoughts. We go off on amazing adventures and spend time with created characters—in isolation. […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 88: Reasons To Write There are a hundred good reasons not to write. You have to steal back the time from your busy life and make your writing a priority. All art is in the doing. Action has magic grace and power. I gave a talk at the Inspire Collective […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 85: Pain is My Friend Anything worth doing is worth doing well. We’ve all heard the saying and perhaps trotted it out at certain times in conversation. The truth of this statement is that anything worth doing is going to involve some pain. I’ve returned to exercise after eight weeks […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge Day 84: No Regrets Regret is a word that means, I wish I had. Words carry psychological power. Afraid. Fear. Time wasted. Time slipping away. Plan B. Not saying yes. Something I always wanted to do but didn’t. I hurt people. Lost touch with people. Staying in my comfort zone. […]
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent. Chuck Wendig My best day ever of writing was on the 8th of October, 2010 at Le Fontanelle near Siena in Italy. I sat on a lounger overlooking the Tuscan landscape. The sun shone on the vines and […]
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a […]
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson Writers write about the human condition. Love, lust, murder, hurt, hate, blessing, cursing, adventure, regret, dreams fulfilled, dreams dashed, tragedy, comedy — the whole gamut of human experience is available for a writer’s attention. Lots of my friends write […]
I’ve just finished a novel that scared me. Not in a horror movie/suspense/edge-of-the-cliff sort of way. It scared me because it’s about an issue that is important to me, and to many others. But it’s controversial. It’s controversial because it’s an issue people are polarised over. Grace is a seventeen year old girl who thinks […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 79: Don’t Say Maybe Say just a simple ‘Yes, I will’ or ‘No, I won’t.’ Your word is enough. The Bible Maybe is such an open word. If I say maybe to someone they will hear yes. Maybe gives an out. It may or may not happen. Being on the […]
