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Let the Blessings Flow
Your life is a gift. Your presence here part of the whole. You are Source Energy and you hold incredible power. You can create your life. Manifest your dreams. And you can bless. Yes, bless. I’m not...
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Managing the Emotional Fabric of Story
Suzanne Kelman wrote a post the other day about falling in “love” with a character. It got me thinking about the emotions that go in and come out of a Story and how we manage that emotional fabric....
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What Parents Can Do After Newtown Shooting
I was going to cancel this week’s blog post, out of respect for the families of Newtown Elementary. Silence seemed the only appropriate thing to offer at this solemn time. But maybe silence isn’t what...
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Responding to What Moves Us – How to Create Change
This holiday season finds us in a mix of tumultuous world events, tragedies and uncertainties. There’s anger, frustration, blame and arrogance over the particular problems that have pierced through our...
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Abundance or Scarcity: Is the Choice Yours?
The bottom line is this: It’s All Story. Abundance is a Story. Scarcity is a Story. Yes, there are facts supporting both of them, but remember it isn’t the facts that shape our lives—it’s our Stories....
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Weighing Opinions on Your Creative Work
Opinions. We each have one. We each think we’re right. And that’s the beauty of our human race. The fact that we each have a unique and personal reaction to the world around us. A response that allows...
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If You’re Not Having Fun, What’s the Point?
Good question, isn’t it? We writers and artists can get so focused on our creative goals, making money and working to manifest big dreams that we forget: art isn’t life and death. We’re supposed to be...
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Get Clear on Your Vision
Art is a funny thing, writing, too – in that the process depends so much on our beliefs about ourselves. Other work is pretty straightforward (most of the time). But in art, we revise, we seek...
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Bullying in Art, Is There Room for Grace?
Someone whose spirit I deeply respect is going through a rough time. His artistic work has long been exceptional, but he doubts its value. For many reasons, one of which is that his powerful work...
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Does Creative Work Need a Purpose to Be Worth It?
A couple of my writer friends and I have ongoing discussions about faith, spirituality, craft and the nature of creative life. We find common ground on our exploration of spirituality, how we approach...
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Write the Story You Need to Write
I read a thought-provoking post this morning from Lori-Lyn Hurley titled “You Know the Way” where she explores how we need to discern what is true for us amidst all the well-intentioned advice we get....
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On Doing Something Well, Creative Integrity and Passion
Q: How important is it to not just achieve a creative dream, but to do it well? I think what you’re asking is really an issue of creative integrity. I’m not sure anyone starts out to put work out there...
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Five Most Important Things I’ve Learned as a Freelance Writer
Choose Faith Over Fear When I started out as a full-time freelancer, I had six weeks of savings to go on. As I marketed my services, I soon realized that I made very different choices when I was moving...
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Carpenter or Architect? Writers, Which One Are You?
The premise of most “writing how-to” books is this: writers make up stories. Because they make up stories, writing one really comes down to selecting the right structure, tools and materials to build...
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Say Yes and Live It
Life does not require religion; it requires faith. Faith in yourself, faith in your dreams, faith in your guidance, faith in the unseen, faith that you are a being of Life, that your power is inherent,...
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What to Do When You Feel Stuck or Blocked
I learned a long time ago that there are tides in life. Times of clear vision. Times of pure blindness. Times of productive activity. Times of forced stillness. But over time, as I learned to create a...
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Encouragement for Writers (and Characters) in Revision
As writers, we spend the majority of our time in revision. It’s where we truly get to know our characters and ourselves. It’s a time of intense concentration that requires different skill sets than...
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Your Time is Now
We pour our energy into creating the future. Set our sights on creative dreams that are finished, materialized, produced, published, bought. We anticipate income, status, a certain level of “making it”...
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The Heart of a Mother – Interview with Filmmakers Evelyne & Gabriela Tollman
Two years ago, Gabriela Tollman’s son Charlie was born prematurely. After 11 days, he lost his fight to overcome E. coli. As the pain shattered her mother’s heart, she had no idea how that pain echoed...
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Writers, Procrastination and Productivity
It gets to all of us. We pin “procrastination” on our tendency to avoid doing the work. Work we feel passionate about. Work we spend months, years, sweating away (okay, maybe not actually sweating, but...
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