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What it Takes to be an Artist

Jayne.Press·3 min read Have you lost yourself in societal expectations? Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson taken from his essay titled Self-Reliance Have you lost yourself in societal expectations? Trying to meet the expectations of everyone aroundContinue reading “What it Takes to be an Artist”

Six Tips on How to Start Writing

Let’s write books !! There are people out there who write entire books. You say you wanna write. You say you have a great story with great ideas. There’s only one thing stopping you from getting a great story from inside your head and onto paper. The only thing stopping you is you. That’s noContinue reading “Six Tips on How to Start Writing”

To Live

Let’s Discuss There are a few different things that come to mind when we think about what it means to live. There’s the idea that we are walking, talking, breathing human beings that eat, sleep, and poop. Then there is the choice to live. To wake up and do more than just survive. This mindset looks like, tasting new things, goingContinue reading “To Live”

Candle on the Water

How to keep writing even when flooded of uncertainty When we start writing our novels and our poems we have this grand idea. It starts in our head. Then we find different ways to get it out on paper whether writing outlines or going right in and developing the piece as we go. The processContinue reading “Candle on the Water”

Write to Wake Up

Writing wakes me up to so many things, here’s a few. Do you write to wake up? And no, I don’t mean in the morning. Writing in many ways shines a light on the parts of yourself that you didn’t even notice. And the lessons that come with being a writer also tend to shine aContinue reading “Write to Wake Up”

Keep Going

There’s zigzags and byways and dark shifty alleyways What do you get when you can’t find your way? Found? Or left to run astray? I don’t know what comes between those two things but I sure know you’re going to find all the things you’re meant to you’re not behind just make sure youKeep going.Continue reading “Keep Going”

Abundance

Responsibilities are getting to me the world and its demands the time and its movement It all calls me It all pulls me and still I’m going to wake up grateful for one more day I’m going to create a life I’m honored to leave behind I’m going to support the parts of myself thatContinue reading “Abundance”