Category: Creativity and Resilience
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How to anchor your creative endeavor while juggling work, study and family with writing.
What is it like to try to pursue writing with a full-time job – (I work in Dlr Libraries) while doing a Masters (Library and Information Management with the University of Ulster – Distance Learning) , not to mention guiding and looking out for four teenagers/young adults and keeping connected with extended family, friends and…
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Creative resilience in writing : positive, realistic values and aims
In the last post we looked at how you can build a better attitude towards the substance and quality of your own work. Some of the approaches we looked at such as progress recording and taking a class were very practical. Others were more psychological and value driven such as honouring your background and identifying…
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Creative resilience in the face of self-doubt
I’ve wanted to restart this blog with a specific focus on creative resilience. There are so many things that can stop us – a world pandemic, climate crisis, tiredness, overwork, confusion, conflicting demands and that old perennial self-doubt. To endeavour in the face of all those mega obstacles you need to have a reason. Once…