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  • 7 Reasons to Meditate if You Write or Make Art

    7 Reasons to Meditate if You Write or Make Art
  • 15 Writing Tips & Touchstones to Return to Each Time Your Momentum Slows or Stops

    15 Writing Tips & Touchstones to Return to Each Time Your Momentum Slows or Stops
  • 7-Step Process to Align Body, Mind and Soul for Optimum Creativity

    7-Step Process to Align Body, Mind and Soul for Optimum Creativity
  • 9 Potent Ways to Use Music to Enhance Your Writing

    9 Potent Ways to Use Music to Enhance Your Writing
  • 7 Ways to Embrace Vulnerability and Write Truth

    7 Ways to Embrace Vulnerability and Write Truth
  • 6 Liberating Ways to Let Go—Skin Shedding—An Essay by Louise Moulin

    6 Liberating Ways to Let Go—Skin Shedding—An Essay by Louise Moulin
  • Vulnerability In Fiction: Teaching Jaded Characters How To Trust By Angela Ackerman

    Vulnerability In Fiction: Teaching Jaded Characters How To Trust By Angela Ackerman

Return to Presence with the RAIN of Self-Compassion Practice

15 Writing Tips & Touchstones to Return to Each Time Your Momentum Slows or Stops

A. L. Kennedy’s 10 Rules for Writing Fiction

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Acupressure to Ease Creative Doubt

Julia Cameron on Why We Should Write

Find Your Motivation & Increase Energy with These Ancient Techniques

10 Quick Tips for Writing Fiction By Andrew Motion

Poetry | How Tired I Am, My Love By Nikka Ursula

Find Clarity & Presence with a Swift Meditation for Busy Creatives

9 Ways to Make Peace with the Inner Critic

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Author Alice Munro On Story

Roddy Doyle’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction

Poetry | Sonnet XVII By Pablo Neruda

15 Ways to Fall in Love with Writing [All Over Again]

Rainer Maria Rilke on Trusting in Nature, Loving Small Things & Living Questions

Happy Birthday Nina Simone [& a Brief Blog Hiatus]

Anne Enright’s Finest 10 Tips for Writing Fiction

9 Potent Ways to Use Music to Enhance Your Writing

Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo—Arte, Amor, Dolor: Pain & the Healing Power of Art

7 Tools to Liberate Yourself From Writing Doubt

Ursula K. Le Guin on Where We Get Our Ideas From

Poetry | Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, gladly beyond — e. e. cummings

Annie Dillard on How We Spend Our Lives & Presence Over Productivity

Poetry | Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines) By Pablo Neruda

15 Tools Inspired by Eastern Wisdom to Find Stillness in a Storm Part II

Madeleine L’Engle on the 3 Most Important Things for Writers

Are You an Introverted Intuitive Writer? Why the 2 Most Common Pieces of Writing Advice Probably Won’t Work for You

Anais Nin on June Miller—& a Rare Radio Interview

Enhance Your Curiosity, Creativity and Concentration with This Useful Acupressure Point

5 Essential Writing Habits I Learnt Ghost-Writing Bestsellers By Roz Morris

6 Liberating Ways to Let Go—Skin Shedding—An Essay by Louise Moulin

Vulnerability In Fiction: Teaching Jaded Characters How To Trust By Angela Ackerman

When Things Go Wrong—15 Tools Inspired By Eastern Wisdom to Find Stillness in a Storm Part I

[Interlude] Compassion, Vulnerability & My Unexpected Plot Twist

Mark Strand on Being in Creative Flow

George Saunders’ Short Animated Documentary on the Art of Storytelling

7-Step Process to Align Body, Mind and Soul for Optimum Creativity

Pema Chödrön on Why to Meditate

When Life Takes Over Your Writing—How to Find Clarity & Put the Drama on the Page

Poetry | Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

Diane Ackerman on Truly Living Our Lives

The Finest Way to Reignite Your Love of Writing

Frida Kahlo on Being Just as Strange as You

2 Minutes of Stillness | Meditation

10 Brilliant Tips for Writing Fiction Inspired by Famous Authors

15 Secrets to Achieving Your Creative Goals Every Day

Henry Miller on Art, Creation & Change

Music | Happy Birthday Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong

Juice Bar | What to Eat to Keep Calm & Creative

10 Ancient Healing Tools to Relax, Ease Stress & Keep Your Creative Cool

Tom Robbins on Writing and Making a Fool of Yourself

Poetry | Call Me by My True Names By Thich Nhat Hanh

Natalie Goldberg on Stepping Out Your Own Way & How Writing Frees Us

Pema Chödrön on Tigers, Strawberries and the Preciousness of the Moment

Poetry | Remember By Joy Harjo

Sharon Saltzberg on Connection, Compassion and Loving Kindness

15 Ocean-Inspired Storytelling Tools & Tips

Brené Brown on Owning Your Story & the Power of Vulnerability

Joseph Conrad on Fiction, Art and the Power of the Written Word

Music | Be Fair With Me Baby By Billie Holiday

10 Rules for Writing Fiction by Helen Dunmore

Rainer Maria Rilke on Writing Being Your Purpose and Judging Art

7 Ways to Embrace Vulnerability and Write Truth

Pema Chödrön on the Moment, Not Taking Things Personally and Liberation

Creative Confidence: How to Believe in Yourself [and Your Art]

John Steinbeck’s 6 Tips for the Aspiring Writer

Poetry | The Secret By Denise Levertov

Tom Robbins on How to Make Love Stay

Free-Writing: The Secret of All Successful Writers

Creative Overwhelm: Slowing Down and Finding Stillness in a Busy World

Ira Glass on the Creative Process

Poetry | Elegy for the Living by Kathryn Simmonds

Anne Lamott on Perfectionism, People-Pleasing and Shooting for the Moon

Henry Miller’s 11 Tips to Writing Well

Poetry | Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks by Pablo Neruda

6 Ways to Liberate Your Creativity by Rebalancing Your Being

Picasso on Art, Instinct and the Shadow

7 Secrets to Unleash Your Creativity Inspired by Eastern Wisdom

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the milky way
between us
an ocean apart

~ Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 @ericcoliu, https://buff.ly/jyXxV4b // #Photography: ‘Milky Way Over Sea Sparkle Bay’ by James Garlick #haiku #vss365

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“Start at the beginning, or the middle, or wherever. Write a fragment, or an incomplete scene. Don’t keep track of your word count… Just start #writing and see what happens… You don’t need to know everything [or] know how it ends.” https://buff.ly/3OETHhO #writingtips

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“I get a lot of letters from people. They say, ‘I want to be a writer. What should I do?’ I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.” ~ Ruth Rendell #writingcommunity

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autumn sky
setting my heart
aflame

~ Random Rain, @randomrain25 // #Photography by Richard Bernabe / https://richardbernabe.com #haiku #3lines

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29 Oct 2115865002498310157

“Although it’s massively important for #writers to read other books… New material is around us all the time… in cafes, on trains, in doorways late at night… That is how we make people readers somehow recognise, and also have never read about before, and might never forget.”

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“Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say.” ~ Ann Patchett #writingcommunity

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Autumn sky ―
Floating clouds,
Becoming alone.

~ Santoka // #Photography: ‘Olden’ by Ole Henrik Skjelstad (ole.henrik.skjelstad) / https://buff.ly/Hy25Xtt #haiku #3lines

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26 Oct 2114777835063714270

"The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.” ~ #MartinAmis #writingcommunity #authors

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Martin Amis, The Art of Fiction No. 151

“Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.”

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“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ~ #LeonardCohen

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