Tag: creativity
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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 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…
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Creative resilience in the face of chaos
In the past this blog has focussed on how to keep going in difficult times during periods of upheaval, overload, uncertainty, loss and grief and in 2020 during the time of the Covid19 pandemic we have all these together. If we have not lost a loved one, we know of someone who has, we have…
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Public Battles, Private Wars – Writing, Motherhood & Laura Wilkinson’s new novel
Following on from yesterday’s consideration of the challenges of a parent-writer, today we have a guest post from Laura Wilkinson who’s new novel Public Battles, Private Wars about a family, and particularly the women involved at the time of the 1980s miners strike in Britain is just out. With great depth of character and dealing…
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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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Sit under your novel in progress, lessons from motherhood
As I mother of four I am very familiar with having to wait, to rein in speed and impetus and to go very slowly or not at all while being present for my children in some way or another. Walking with a toddler or even my 5 year old now there is more standing than…
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The Writer’s Eye, Short story opps and more
I’m talking about observance, ideas and the special qualities that individual writers can bring to our sense and story making of this world. As regards writing, finding stories, I do not believe in waiting for the muse, life is out there, stories are everywhere. Creativity often comes about purely by the juxtaposition of material or…
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The Joy of Self-publishing and Creative Sparks
Today I’m talking to Diana Bletter on her blog about Putting Joy and Energy in Our Lives, specifically I wanted to share why self-publishing Housewife with a Half-Life – a heartwarming book I believe in – was a joyful and optimistic step and how I hope to maintain this joy and energy in my work…
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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…