Return to Presence with the RAIN of Self-Compassion Practice
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
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]
Happy Birthday Nina Simone [& a Brief Blog Hiatus]
15 Writing Tips & Touchstones to Return to Each Time Your Momentum Slows or Stops
Rainer Maria Rilke on Trusting in Nature, Loving Small Things & Living Questions
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
Julia Cameron on Why We Should Write
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
A. L. Kennedy’s 10 Rules for Writing Fiction
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
Acupressure to Ease Creative Doubt
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
“Start #writing. Start at the beginning or the middle… Write a fragment or an incomplete scene… Just start writing and see what happens. You don’t need to take on your entire #story all at once. Just work with it as it comes, in the moment, and respond.”
Writers, Listen Up! This Is the Thing You Keep Doing That’s Killing Your Story - Lauren Sapala
A few years ago, I was contacted by a woman who desperately wanted to write down the story of her mother’s ...
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“Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.” ~ Esther Freud #amwriting #writingcommunity
still unable
to forget his eyes—
quiet lake
~ Lena K, Dandelion Girl, @moscowdandelion // #Photography by Ilari Tuupanen #PoetryMonth #haiku #vss365
“It’s amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.” ~ Octavia Butler #quotestoliveby
Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again…
That’s what it said
as it dropped,
smelling of iron,
and vanished
like a dream of the ocean
Then it was over.
The sky cleared.
~ #MaryOliver
📷 Camille Shmeel
“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 #amwriting #writingcommunity
“In great #fiction, the setting lives from the very first pages. Such places not only feel extremely real, they are dynamic. They change. They affect the characters in the story. They become metaphors, possibly even actors in the drama.” #writingtips
How To Make Your Setting a Character
Powerfully portrayed settings seem to have a life of their own, but how is that effect achieved? Here are five ...
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“I love you, love you, love you / sad as you are, O world.” ~ Adelia Prado
#Photography by Tim Laman http://timlamanfineart.com
For #EarthDay2024 30% off Tim’s Orangutan prints and 100% of proceeds to be donated to Save Wild #Orangutans @GPOrangutans to help crucial #conservation.
starry sky
all the thoughts end
in silence
~ Andrea Cecon, @andreochka // #Photography: Mikko Lagerstedt, @MikkoLagerstedt / http://mikkolagerstedt.com
In honour of #PoetryMonth, sharing a favourite #haiku and poet. Buy Andrea’s beautiful #poetry here: https://buff.ly/41p9IPC