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I can look back to a time when writing poetry was one of the main ways that I had for making sense of the world around me. The creative output from this time in my life actually staggers me – although sometimes I cringe at the quality – I was certainly prolific. I thought I’d [...]
Filed under: Inspiration, Poems, Writing | Tagged: Books, Creative Writing, Creativity, Literature, Poetry, Writing | 10 Comments »
Accept that you will make mistakes as everyone does. If mistakes are so inevitable would it not be better to incorporate them into your creative process and use them as opportunities to be exploited rather than set-backs or even fatal flaws in the project. The ever wise Dorye Roettger famously said, “There are no problems [...]
Filed under: Inspiration, Time Management | Tagged: Advice, Chess, Creative Problem Solving Process, Creativity, Time management, Writing | 6 Comments »
Since the beginning of March this year I have been podcasting my short stories/fables/fairytales as “Stories from the Borders of Sleep“. It has been pretty exciting to see the listnership grow as we (that’s me and my producer, Tim, and Illustrator, Robyn) have started to put new episodes out on a fortnightly basis. There are [...]
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The next couple of months is looking exciting, here’s what I am up to: Stories from the Borders of Sleep This is my personal pet project that is delightfully growing a life of its own. For a number of years I have been keeping a dream diary and also a record of some of the [...]
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“Why do you write?” someone asked me. I took two minutes to give them my pat answer, which has to do with books and stories having practically raised and educated me and, above all, comforted me, and how, as “we read to know we are not alone”, I write in order to reach out and [...]
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