For the Conscious Writer Intentional learning is part of the writing process. The best way to learn intentionally is to set learning goals. The great thing is that anything you learn can be incorporated into your writing. So think about what you’d be interested in learning. What would spark your curiosity? Then follow the rabbit.Continue reading “What’s the Next Lesson?”
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How to Let Go While Feeling Everything
For the Conscious Writer “Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.” Dalai Lama As a conscious writer, it’s important to be able to let a story go. It starts during creation, even though you shouldn’t think too much about what to get rid of whileContinue reading “How to Let Go While Feeling Everything”
On Infidelity and Monsters
When would he realize that it wasn’t his infidelity I couldn’t bear, but his cowardice?― Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key Infidelity is something I’m exploring right now. Since there’s different types, I’m referring to the type that involves an entire secret relationship. What hurts about it? The inability to face the betrayed partner? The sucker punch toContinue reading “On Infidelity and Monsters”
Have a Go To Beverage
For the Conscious Writer Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. Abraham Verghese As aContinue reading “Have a Go To Beverage”
Find Your Quiet Place
For the Conscious Writer I am not saying that meditation is the only element necessary to turn you into a master writer, but if this practice is absent from your writing and creative process, you are simply leaving too much potential on the table. –Farnoosh Brock Meditation is important for the imagination. It gives us the spaceContinue reading “Find Your Quiet Place”
Self Reflection and Writing
For the Conscious Writer Photo by Vince Fleming on Unsplash ”It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.” — Ella Maillart Photo by Reno Laithienne on Unsplash Self Reflection This is the cardinal rule. “Know thyself.” Self reflection is the direct link to knowing yourself. As conscious writers, weContinue reading “Self Reflection and Writing”
How to Write Like an Artist
Feel more connected to your work Photo by Alice Donovan Rouse on Unsplash This is just a fun title. There’s no rules to being an artist. That’s what makes artists artists. Anyway, here’s some things to consider, while you’re writing, that will make you feel more connected to your work as if it is a work of art.Continue reading “How to Write Like an Artist”
Start New Writing Goals Everyday
For Writing Goals Photo by Content Pixie on Unsplash Wake up with brand new expectations daily. Let go of whatever you didn’t finish the previous day and just focus on finishing today’s goals. You may ask, well what if I get behind? Yes, that is a great question. I used to overwhelm myself when I didn’t complete myContinue reading “Start New Writing Goals Everyday”
You’re Contribution is Valuable
Dear Writer, Photo by Johnny McClung on Unsplash Understand that you’re contribution is valuable What you have to share is irreplaceable. People can write things similar to you and that’s ok. You’re adding your work to the mosaic. Maybe your piece is a little darker, or more positive, or more factual. We need it all. No matterContinue reading “You’re Contribution is Valuable”
It’s the Chase
It’s the Chase A Micro Romance On Writing Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash You know that feeling when you’re creating and you’re chasing everything your thoughts, new ideas, the missing links, that’s what you’re in it for. You chase, your brain is all over the place, and then it slowly and suddenly you realize, it’s allContinue reading “It’s the Chase”
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