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Today’s Haiku: A Moment of Creative Presence
Garavogue/ river water gushes round/ unmoved rock.
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Go Creative Tool #4: Create Dates
The Creative Date With Self (create-date for short) is a once-weekly, fun expedition to explore something you find compelling or thrilling. An expedition, by yourself, to do something that enchants or...
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Creative Can Do
Boosting Self-Belief. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right,” said Henry Ford. Or, as my old Irish auntie used to grumble, “You get what you put in for.” It would be hard to find a...
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Opening Creative Doors
What happens when you start to turn a door knob that won’t budge? First, you turn it harder; then perhaps you pull up on the knob or push it down. Then maybe you wiggle it. Eventually, you shove the...
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F-R-E-E-Writing
Now on pre-order The wo/man who doesn’t write has no advantage over the wo/man who can’t. Those of us who are lucky enough to be literate can take writing for granted. It has become so everyday we...
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F-R-E-E Writing: Using images to release your creativity
Writing exact-but-easy is the instruction that most new F-R-E-E-Writers find hardest to follow. Fast, they get. Raw, they get but what does it mean to write exact-but-easy? Are these two not...
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Freewriting For Healing, Transformation and Liberation
Freewriting Notebook: A Go Creative! Tool Most of us write far too carefully. We’re trying to do it right. We’re trying, full stop. Hanging out on the page doesn’t have to be an effort. That it is for...
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Be More Creative Guest. This Week… The Power of Imagining with Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman artist&creative educator “We begin by worrying we aren’t good enough, smart enough or talented enough to get what we want, then we voluntarily live in this paralyzing mental...
View ArticleFinal Call: F-R-E-E-Writing Book
Last chance to get your pre-order copy of F-R-E-E-Writing: Unblocking Life’s Flow. It launches Tuesday next, 30th of September. But you can order your advance copy now — without being charged until...
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Feeling Anxious or Overwhelmed? Try F-R-E-E-Writing
Yen writes: I’m a novice at F-R-E-E-Writing and I was lucky to have the chance to learn it from Orna, at a class she held last year. As a writer, I had my reservations about using this technique for...
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Ten reasons to F-R-E-E-Write
Available from Amazon. Buy now F-R-E-E-Writing rights. At a daily level, it improves your psychic state, elevates your mood, makes you feel centred, sets you up for your day. We almost always feels...
View ArticleSeven Go Creative! Guidelines: Email
Emails — and Facebook Messenger, Slackchat, Asana, any way that other people send you tasks, thoughts and ideas — are great for communication, giving you the power to choose what you say, to whom, and...
View ArticleHaiku on Instagram
It’s my daily hobby to play with a form of poetry called haiku, as a way of fostering creative presence in the moment. And lately I’ve started posting them on Instagram with a photograph of that...
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Your Monday Motivator: Don’t Think, Just Do!
The theme of this week’s Monday motivator mailout is “Don’t Think, Just Do!” Each week I send a Monday mail as a reminder to creatives and creativists. The pull of the outer and conventional world is...
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On The Go Creative! Show This Week: Collaboration For Creative Succcess
Click here to the show here Today, in the creative living segment, I’m introducing Sondra Turnbull, who will moderate the upcoming creativist club, launching in January. In creative publishing, I’m...
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This week’s F-R-E-E-Writing prompt: What We Leave Behind
This week’s F-R-E-E-Writing prompt explores how we think about ourselves and the legacy we’ll leave TRY THIS: WRITE YOUR OBITUARY a) Sit in stillness and quiet, with your notebook open before you, your...
View ArticleHaiku of the Week Features: Evening Sun
Golden path. / Evening sun on sea calling / walk this way. Now Your Turn: Capture a moment of creative presence: Write a 3-7-3 or a 5-7-5 haiku. Here’s how. Use the 13 or 17 syllables to give a short...
View ArticleHaiku of the Week Features: Manhattan
Manhattan / finger of stone trying to / touch the sky. Now Your Turn: Capture a moment of creative presence: Write a 3-7-3 or a 5-7-5 haiku. Here’s how. Use the 13 or 17 syllables to give a short...
View ArticleHaiku of the Week Features: Dance
In the park / Most people ignoring a / dancing girl. Now Your Turn: Capture a moment of creative presence: Write a 3-7-3 or a 5-7-5 haiku. Here’s how. Use the 13 or 17 syllables to give a short...
View ArticleBe More Creative With Bruce Springsteen: On Keeping Creative Faith
“We’re all honorary citizens of that primal forest, and our burdens and weaknesses always remain. They are an ineradicable part of ourselves; they are our humanity. But when we bring light, the day...
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