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31 Days: #Writeprompt : Bowie’s Creativity Technique & story from Gerry O’ Donnell
Another pleasure of this 31 days posting odyssey is finding writers who’s work I had not been aware of before. Gerry O’ Donnell joined in with earlier writing prompts to produce fantastic flash fiction and poetry. Knowing that I was a fan of David Bowie Gerry kindly got in touch to tell me about a…
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31 Days: Using your writing creatively for financial resilience
While there are some amazing success stories, there are many more examples of writers who practice their craft for little or nothing and many relatively successful published authors earn less than the basic wage. There are however, several optimistic and creative ways in which you can use your writing to generate some income or to…
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Photo Write Prompt Comp Results
There were three entries this time for the comp. I’m not sure whether the photo or more elastic criteria made it harder to for people to come up with something in just a few days but I hope the photo was food for thought for others and that there may be stories or poems that…
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Originally posted on Alison Wells Author: Use the five fives to inspire you The overarching theme of this blog, as you know, is head space. In the context of my endeavours as a writer this in particular means the kind of head space that will engender creativity, that feeling of flow that connects you with…
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31 Days: Thinking about others
Yesterday I talked about how important it is to stand up and say what you want to be and to ask for the support you need. However I’m not a fan of the ‘me’ and ‘because I’m worth it’ culture and while people might want to ‘fulfill themselves’ I have roundly been put off by…
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31 Days: Saying Thank You
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. Sunday is a day when many of us have, or should have more of an opportunity to pause.…
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31 Days: Photo Write Prompt Comp
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. This weeks writing challenge is to write a short fiction, poem, character sketch or dialogue exchange based on…
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31 Days: Inspiration and Daily Practice
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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31 Days: Finding your space and time to create
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. No-one has the time None of us really have time to write or follow other creative pursuits not…
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31 Days: How walking & running make you creative
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. Walking & Running New Years Day is a traditional day for getting out and shaking off the inertia…
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