Wisdom, Wellbeing and Writing for Conscious Creatives
A sequel, or perhaps prequel to: 15 Ways to Fall in Love with Writing [All Over Again] “Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatise our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we […]
“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 1,000 words a day – which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like […]
These images are part of a stunningly beautiful photoshoot by Russian-born artist, Elena Kalis, who specializes in underwater photography. What if Alice, after falling and falling inside the Rabbit hole, ended straight to the ocean? And what if the ocean surrounded a small island in the Bahamas? Although it may seem confusing, Elena Kalis imagined an […]
“There is always something left to love.” — One Hundred Years of Solitude In an interview with the New York Times in 1982, master storyteller Gabriel García Márquez, said that the “tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism… The key is to tell it straight. It is […]
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