During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing. Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry. Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or…
When we prioritize creativity, we prioritize our life force energy and vitality. When we prioritize vitality, we invigorate and renew every aspect of our lives. On that note, love this quote from Carl Jung: “All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the person’s…
Creative breakthroughs happen when we perceive what lies beyond our ordinary ways of looking…. writing a fairy tale will give you that shift of perception. Fairy tales offer insightful, surprising answers that we can’t get any other way. ???? In this youtube video, I guide you in writing your own fairy tale…a quick way to…
“Most of us typically associate metaphor with the flowery language that poets use or with things that are made up: ‘That’s just a metaphor.’ In other words, we typically treat metaphors as outside of ourselves, when in fact they are the deep, sensory, intuitive language of the feeling center of our brain. To say that metaphor is…
Yesterday was a rough day. My elderly 19-year-old dog peed AND pooped in my car. 🙁 In a fit of exasperation–having too much to do, it was terribly hot out, and I needed to pack for a trip–when I cleaned up the poop I threw out the feathers that I’d found in the days after…
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