As I mentioned last week, I’m re-sharing and completing The Artist’s Way Series again this year. Last week, we looked at the introduction. We’re on to Week 1 – a week in which we work to recover a sense of safety for our inner artist. We’re looking now at Week 1 the course. I will…
If I Ever Stopped Writing
I saw this quite a while back on Shilpa’s blog in response to The Insecure Writer’s Support Group prompt — If you ever stopped writing, what would you replace it with? This is a brilliant question! I thought about what I’d do if I ever stopped writing, especially what I write in my Morning Pages and…
Three-Minute Writing Sprints
In her book Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, Natalie Goldberg, suggests that ‘three-minute writing sprints’ can be considered as training to run a long distance – a book! You start small and build up skill, fluency and distance. Three-Minute Writing Sprints Try writing for three minutes on each of these…
Vulnerability And Writing
As a writer, I am always drawn to questions—the kind that have no simple answers, that stretch and challenge the mind rather than resolve neatly. I struggle to reach satisfying conclusions. Writing makes me realize how many sides there are to every story, and how much there is to learn. And, I understand that my…
Making It
This tool is taken from the chapter called ‘Making It’ in Julia Cameron‘s The Right To Write. In this chapter, Julia narrates her experience with a young man who sought her advice on how to make it as a writer. He had a counterpoint for every piece of advice that Julia gave him and found…
Writing Off The Page
It’s been quite a while since I wrote here. Today, I’m doing a free write using an exercise that Natalie Goldberg refers to in her Writing Down The Bones (Amazon affiliate link). It’s called writing off the page. Writing Off The Page Explained Take a poetry book. Open to any page, grab a line, write…