Are you working on a novel for NaNoWriMo at the moment? Having a creativity crisis? Or simply in need of a blogging boost? Are you hoping to collate your best blog posts into a published book some day? Here’s a book I’d recommend by Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void, a blogger who did just that.
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Writing
Writing is writing, and the means by which it finds wings is still the product of, for better or worse, a process. This book is all about empowering that process. ~ Larry Brooks
Every so often I discover and resonate with a new blogger. It’s not just because of the concepts they convey in their [...]
It doesn’t matter what kind of writing we do: whether it’s personal insights or practical tips, posts about happiness or blogging, coaching or parenting, serenity or simple living, there comes a time when we need to freshen up our writing to stop our topics becoming stale. Stories, descriptions and daily details can enhance and illustrate [...]
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We all have the opportunity to be spiritual pioneers in some way. When you put relationships before results, live with integrity, and care about how your actions affect the greater community, you too add spiritual value to the world. ~ Cheryl Richardson
Are you a spiritual pioneer?
Whether you blog to express yourself, to [...]
Authenticity is not for the faint of heart. To fly in the face of history, circumstance and uncertainty, with your truth fully unfurled, takes some serious moxy. When you want to love and be loved (and what else is there really?) your truth becomes a very tender thing, and sharing it is a mighty gift. [...]
I take thirty words to say what genius poets and great thinkers can say in a heartbeat! I think that’s why I’m so drawn to quotes. Some have a kind of distilled essence that comes from having been lovingly shared and passed around for years, like a worn wedding ring or a sea tossed pebble. [...]
Is it pungent, reeking of ripe stenches and rotten odours? Or is it fresh and fragrant, evocative, scented and sensual?
Both are good. The bland sterility of written anosmia, on the other hand, eventually leaves me cold. Anosmia in real life terrifies me. I’ve experienced it. (Please read Coming to My Senses - I had to learn how [...]
Writing is a gift you share with the world, every time you capture and express a thought or overflowing part of your soul in words. Why don’t you share that gift with your mum, especially if you learned your first words on her knee, handed her your first carefully coloured crayon drawings, saw her storing away every story and school essay you ever wrote?
This morning’s bay was full of eagles. Laboured flyers, they fly in a “flap, flap, flap–glide” manner. I interpret the flaps as the purposeful, thinking mode, and the glide as a period of less commitment but continued progress. Later in the morning, the eagles are at great altitude, soaring effortlessly. ~ Robert Genn*
I feel like [...]
