Category: 31 ways to keep your Head above Water
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31 Days: Questions of Flow in Writing
Flow is a state of complete and energised immersion. It happens when we are wholeheartedly engaging in a task for it’s own sake. We can’t make it happen, although we can proceed with the activities that often promote this feeling, whether it’s playing music, hillwalking, doing a jigsaw. According to psychologists, the conditions of flow…
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31 Days: Guest Post Derek Flynn – When is a poem not a poem
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. We’re looking here in the 31 Days posts at different aspects of creativity. I wanted to hear from…
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31 Days: Say what you want to be
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. My dears, sometimes we feel fretful. For those whose drive to create is at the heart of them…
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31 Days: Sad Thinking and how to turn it round
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. I’ve talked already about how we shouldn’t beat ourselves up when we don’t achieve what we set out…
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31 Days: Finding Wordfire
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. A busy day today so I have just time for a flying post. I saw a link this…
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31 Days: Guest Post: Photography – taking up a new creative pursuit
I promised you a writing exercise. It’s coming tomorrow and will be related to today’s post. I am very happy indeed to welcome to the blog, John Ivory, who I met through social media and have subsequently met in real life. John has recently been posting fabulous photographs on Facebook, they are of a tremendous…
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31 Days: Stop! or HALT Have a day off and smile!
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. I’d planned today to write about negative thoughts including some of the ways that are recommended (and that…
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31 Days: Celebrating the creativity of David Bowie
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. I’m not sure what this post was going to be about before I heard David Bowie’s new song…
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31 days: Writing Goals, how to achieve them & what if you don’t
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. To receive all the 31 posts, sign up for email notification on the sidebar. On twitter it’s at…
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