It’s been almost two months since my last blog post. In that time it’s been hard to find my purpose for posting. Over my eight years of blogging, I’ve focused on two main reasons for writing on this page, and both reasons have been failing me lately. Reason One: I blog because I have something […]
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My Creative Autobiography, Part 1
In yesterday’s post, I introduced the 33 questions from Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life designed to guide the reader to write a creator’s autobiography. Today I’m going to answer the first eleven questions. I hope some of you will join me in pondering these questions and sharing the […]
How I Feed My Creativity
This post is inspired by the DIY MFA book, hitting bookshelves this summer! I’m a member of the Street Team helping to promote the book, and Gabriela Pereira (DIY MFA instigator) has been sending us all emails with blog post prompts for the last several weeks. I answered the first prompt with my post Why […]
How Do You Say No To Your Idea?
One of the things I love best about myself is the idea-generator in my head. I’m taking a walk or doing chores, and something just comes to me: the thread of a children’s story; the idea for a self-improvement book; a way I can write in the theme of an upcoming writing contest. The other night I woke […]