Create with love
Each year I learn more about the importance of putting love at the centre. It's why I create and what I create. Creativity is a source of...
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Inspired by metaphor
What does metaphor do for you? Metaphor gives me energy. It lights up everything it touches through big ways (like the name of my blog:...
The adventure of creating
Creativity can be a daring adventure. Have you experienced falling into a creative project, getting lost in its details, and being...
Creative blocks and how to move them
What is your first step when you have creative blocks? Do you resist? Do you get mad? Do you dive in and play? Maybe you’ve never had a...
The joy of working hard
This spiral is about hard work. Sometimes creativity is easy like paddling downstream and other times it's like navigating the rapids....
The art of balance
How is your time aligned with your goals? How do you balance writing and life? A creative life is dynamic, purposeful, energized,...
How does the audience influence your work?
How do you know when it's time to share your work with others? What is your relationship with the ideas of ambition and audience? How...
What can we learn from Da Vinci?
Among all the amazing artifacts that Da Vinci left behind, his notebooks are fascinating. We can see his process unfold on the pages,...
What did you learn in Kindergarten?
We learn in Kindergarten about the value of sharing. Sharing is defined as having a portion with another or others. For some children,...
Taking Risks
How do you feel about risk? Do you avoid it or attract it? When you are creating what does risk look like to you? Do you need more or...
Dwell in Possibility: Play
One of my favourite Emily Dickinson lines is "I dwell in possibility." Play is essential to creativity. It's about opening, inviting,...
Embrace Gratitude
This week we take a breath to embrace gratitude. What do you love about your process? How do you feel when you are in creative flow? What...
Share what you know
There is a new type of test being used in schools: Share what you know. Rather than the teacher posing questions to gather specific...
How do you use conflict in story?
Conflict is an intensifier in creating and in life. In this lesson we open the door to explore conflict as both danger and opportunity....
Create a vision board
Vision Boards are helpful creative tools to gain clarity on what you want and attract it to you. In a few weeks you will be invited to...
What is your artistic genealogy?
Who are your creative heroes? Are there artists, writers, or creatives you are continually drawn to or fascinated by? What is it about...
Lesson design for creative writing teachers
We connect in community through teaching and learning. Over the last 20 years I’ve watched arts workshops explode in volume and scope...
The energy of creativity
Everyone has a story. From our first cry out of the womb we communicate our insight and experience as humans. It is natural. Each new...
When to publish?
We live in a spiral galaxy. Nearly seventy percent of the galaxies closest to the Milky Way are spirals. The centre of a spiral galaxy is...
Writing Alone
A creator's solitude is the joy of being alone with creative expression in an ideal state of flow. Connect to the centre, become an...
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