Category: 31 ways to keep your Head above Water
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New Year, New Writing Verve
Happy New Year and I hope it will be a terrific one for you personally and writing wise. This time last year I took the big step of committing to a creativity post each and every day of January and while I hope sometime to compile these and others I’ve written into a downloadable book,…
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31 Days: When writing is at the heart of us we will not let it go
I’ve been blogging for the 31 days of January on creativity and mental resilience. I hope to explore this area in the future but this phase is at an end. To access the rest of the posts click here. The pencil scratching on the page, diaries for years and years, a notebook thrown further and…
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31 Days: Guest Post: The Benefits of Creative Pursuits – Feltmaking and More
One of the things I’ve been interested in doing in these 31 days is looking at what engagement in a creative pursuit can mean to an individual, how it can satisfy something within them or change how they see the world. While the focus on this blog is writing, I want to see how different…
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31 Days: Eliza Green – Why Self-Publishing can be good for Debut Authors
Publishing is a hair-raising and confusing game at the moment. Lists are said to be shrinking and even well known authors sometimes struggle to make a living from publishing. There are also many publishing possibilities and many authors are choosing to let readers decide by bringing their books straight to market with the help of…
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31 Days: The benefits of laughter
Laughter is in. There is laughter yoga,and laughter therapy there is the plain old fashioned laughing and banter with friends. It makes us feel better, it makes us breath more, promotes endorphins, those happy hormones, it can surprise us out of our lethargy. Psychologists have had difficultly in pinning down humour and what makes a…
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31 Days: What’s important to you?
The day has got away from me and it’s getting late but I’ll share a few thoughts with you running on from yesterday’s post. We see the world in a particular way and one of the reasons we write is to explore our version of the world and perhaps fulfil what Maslow called ‘self-actualisation’, a…
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31 Days: Reasons to Live, Reasons to Love, Reasons to Write
Life is not easy, there are many things that can hit you full on as you go through life, some challenges and losses increasing as the years go by and some people start out through illness and circumstance with challenges from the off. There are many horrors and injustices that make you wonder what kind…
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31 Days Guest Post by Fiona Melrose: Poetry performed Alchemy on My Prose
One of the wonderful things about my 31 days of blogging on mental and creative resilience is how I have made the acquaintance of new and interesting people who are finding ways to enhance their own creativity and are trying new things. One of these people is Fiona Melrose. She told me how attending a…
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