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Listen to Your Work

#amwriting, #becomingunstuck, A M Carley, blog, creative alignment, creative time, denial, listening, still small voice

Can we get quiet enough to hear the still small voice of the houseplant? Or of our undernourished muse? Of our not-yet-ready creative work? ...
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Rest and Downtime – Two Creative Tools

#Nano22, #nanowrimo, #nanowrimo2022, Anne Lamott, anxiety, biorhythms, blog, creative tools, downtime, fear, fight or flight, rest, taking breaks

Support your creativity with rest and downtime. Consider the possibility that you have some opportunities right now to add more rest and downtime to your life, perhaps in small increments ...
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No-Cost Gifts for the Creative People in Your Life

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For the year-end holidays, I offer you two meaningful gifts you can give to the creative people in your life, and with nary a ding to your wallet ...
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Halfway Through Nanowrimo

#amwriting, #becomingunstuck, #Nano22, #nanowrimo, blog, creative time, making the time, point of view, shitty first draft, writing

I don’t need to write in a straight line. I can draft a chapter from later in the sequence, with some confidence that it won’t all be headed for the compost heap ...
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Use Your Words Your Way

#amwriting, #AnneLamott, #becomingunstuck, #BrendaUeland, blog, craft of writing, finding your voice, self-confidence, shitty first draft, writer voice

Just like parents comparing themselves to Instagram-perfect mommy bloggers, writers do themselves harm comparing themselves to the stars-du-jour in their genre ...
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