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

    Vulnerability In Fiction: Teaching Jaded Characters How To Trust By Angela Ackerman
  • 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
  • 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 Reasons to Meditate if You Write or Make Art

    7 Reasons to Meditate if You Write or Make Art
  • 7-Step Process to Align Body, Mind and Soul for Optimum Creativity

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

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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“I don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most #artists create #art in order to explore, not to give the answers. #Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.” ~ Lucille Clifton

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11 Jun 1932844085766668404

morning fog…
this urge to find
my place

~ Hifsa Ashraf, @hifsays / http://hifsayz.wordpress.com/author/hifsaku // #Photography by Jaka Ivancic, @jaka_ivancic / http://jakaivancic.si #micropoetry #haiku

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“Here are the three rules that guide my writing process: 1. Keep the reader reading. 2. Don’t get it right, get it written. 3. Writing is rewriting.” ~ @PaulaSMunier 10 Favorite #WritingTips from Successful #Authors @WritersDigest #writingcommunity

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10 Favorite Writing Tips from Successful Authors

When it comes to writing advice, there are some fundamental truths for tackling first drafts, and committing to the process of writing itself.

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8 Jun 1931748859039932895

“Everyone does have power, we do have a choice. This is a time like never before where we can have a magnified impact before we get to that point where no matter what we do, nothing will alter the path of #climatechange.” ~ @SylviaEarle

📷: Kip Evans, @MissionBlue #WorldOceanDay

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6 Jun 1931024080527892975

“And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything […] and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.” ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

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“It’s no wonder people struggle with motivation and procrastination… But it’s important to recognise that this doesn’t need to be quelled or fixed, only tamed… It will always be present as part of the natural #creative process… Just don’t feel guilty.”

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How to write a novel with ADHD - Creativindie

I’ve seen this question pop up a few times, as well as some answers I don’t agree with. The main presumpti...

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4 Jun 1930307386222288948

fading mist
revealing a scene
soaked in silence

~ James Welsh, @JamesWelsh3 // #Photography: “From The Mist” by José Moreira (@josemoreiraphotography) #vss365 #haiku #micropoetry

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“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.” ~ Arthur Plotnik

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“It's a delicate balance between taking yourself seriously, being disciplined about having a #writing routine, but also remembering to have fun and be playful… I find that this approach, combined with showing up at my desk every day, works.” Oisín McKenna

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Oisín McKenna: On Politics, Compassion, and Complexity in Literary Fiction

In this interview, author Oisín McKenna discusses trying to capture a particular time of life in his new literary...

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