inspiration, creative writing prompts, motivational quotes, poetry and gentle nagging on the creative writing life…
One writing practice I did keep up in the last year was a weekly email to a friend. We had started writing every Sunday as a check-in, accountability email, and understanding the power of gratitude; we always ended each email Continue reading writing in gratitude
Sunday 27th December 1801 A fine soft beautiful, mild day with gleams of sunshine. I lay in bed till 12 o clock, Mr Clarkson’s man came, we wrote to him…Dorothy Wordsworth The Grasmere Journals I’ve kept a journal for more Continue reading A fine soft beautiful day
“Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.” Jalal ad-Din Rumi I just handed in my first packet of work for this semester, so I feel I have Continue reading Why I’ll continue to journal
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.James Boswell I love this image the hard dense brick of soup-add hot water-and then a full steaming bowl of Continue reading A Cake of portable soup
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. Christina Baldwin I’ve been journaling most of my adult life collecting quotes, overheard conversations, poetry starts, words I like, bits of sentences, books to read, movies to watch, directions to a restaurant Continue reading The Art of Journaling
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of Continue reading Writing the Map of You Creatively