What perfect timing. My friend Beth sent me a link to this wonderful Youtube video featuring Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love, in which she gives her take on creativity. The idea of this conversation between me and this something wondrous outside of myself, that sense of connection, is absolutely wonderful.
And what I [...]
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A New Story Idea Blooms
The other day, I decided to take another plunge, and I signed up for Leah’s Creative Every Day 2009. I had hesitated because I had participated in Art Every Day last November, and well, didn’t really end up doing much “arting” at all.
But all of this delving into creativity that I’ve been doing this [...]
Stepping into Prewriting with Collage
I took that step today, finally! After thinking about it and thinking about it, I finally just went and gathered together a pile of older magazines and sat down with them at the kitchen table. Dylan kept me company – he cut shapes from paper to glue into a collage, while I went through a [...]
Encouragement, One Brave Step, and Inspiration
This week’s Next Chapter topic comes from Chapter 3 of the 12 Secrets of Highly-Creative Women: Following your Fascinations. Jamie asks us to share what helps us find the courage to take the risks necessary to make our dreams come true, and then challenges us to take one brave step towards our dreams.
Encouragement
I believe [...]
The Next Chapter: Secret #1 – Acknowledging Your Creative Self
I’m very excited to be starting off my blogging year as part of The Next Chapter blogging book club. It was pure synchronicity; I discovered the Next Chapter site for the current book, The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, yesterday and I realized, “I have that book!” So I dashed off an email to [...]
Pre-Writing with Collage
The other day, I found this page at author Jennifer Crusie’s site, which details how she uses collage as a form of prewriting, and for continued inspiration as she writes her books. You can see the collages she has put together for various books here; Crusie has an art background and it shows! Her collages [...]
Fun with a Writing Sketchbook
This was just what I needed to read today. I’ve been in a bit of a slump with the writing, now that the incentive of NaNoWriMo is gone. But Ann-Kat’s posted about her Writing Sketchbook and the pictures from her writing sketchbook are really inspiring. She says:
Looking at the screen and the college-ruled paper, both [...]
Writing Intention
One thing that I learned during NaNoWriMo month is that it’s just taking that first step – sitting down to write. And an hour of writing can give me almost 2000 words.
So I’ve decided to set a writing intention: writing for an hour every day.
I’ve put my current novel in the sidebar to the [...]
November Wrap-up
It’s the end of November already – this month has passed by so fast, and I’ve both accomplished a ton of stuff, and not done everything I’ve wanted to do.
NaNoWriMo: I didn’t reach my 50,000 words on the one hand, but my initial goal was never to do that. It was to simply get [...]
Going for 5,000 words again today
I’m starting now, and I’m not sure I’ll get to 5000 words, but I’m sure going to try! I will update this post later with my actual word count.
Update: Didn’t quite make it to 5,000 words. Word count: 3806. But I’m happy with it!
