National Novel Writing Month, “a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing”, challenges you to write 50,000 words during the month of November. My head in the fog of nonstop bad news reports and squeezed in the chaos of the 2020 Presidential election, I nearly forgot all about NaNoWriMo this year. The entire event would have slipped by unnoticed if not for a recent spike in sales of my plot and scenes books for writers. Ah, ha! Writers are preparing for NaNo. The idea formed for …
The Authority that Directs Your Creativity Life
Let's start by acknowledging that we each have an internal critic. You know who I mean. The authority in your head that directs what you believe about yourself. For some people, the critic is but an irritation without the power to stop them from moving forward. However, for highly sensitive people, this judge, censor, criticizer, and denigrator has taken over the entire front row in your life. You listen to what it slings at you. What’s more, you believe everything it says. Introduce …
Telling Your Fearless Truth
On Saturday, September 12 at 10:15am Pacific, OG Rev and I discuss “Telling Your Fearless Truth” to kickoff the Craft Conference of Writing For Change: Worldwide 2020 (for a free pass, see below). A few weeks ago, we wrote the following description for our session together: In these turbulent times, the call to speak one's fearless truth summons us with the force of a trumpet blast. As the multitudes swarm cities all over the world with upraised fists crying "Black Lives Matter" and as the …
Suggestions Needed for Boundless Creativity Workbook Donation
I have terrific news! A benefactor has stepped forward with the most generous offer to donate a large number of Boundless Creativity: A Spiritual Workbook to Overcoming Self-Doubt, Emotional Traps, and Other Creative Blocks to groups, clubs, associations, and organizations willing to distribute the workbooks to writers, artists, innovators, entrepreneurs held back by insecurity, fear, or a sense of unworthiness. This anonymous donor believes in the power of the workbook. Her gift is her way of …
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Turning Dreams into Reality Begins with a Goal
For lots of us, the pandemic and the reasons for the current civil unrest have sent us into a tailspin of denial, anger, bargaining, and / or depression. Sound familiar? Those emotions are four of the traditional five stages of grief. We’re mourning all that we've lost and are fearful of what’s coming next -- the unknown future. For many, our time is filled scrambling to provide for family, put food on the table, keep a roof over your head, and / or demonstrating for change. However, for those …
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