The Easiest and the Hardest Thing About Writing

The Easiest and the Hardest Thing About Writing

Are you living the dream? I repeat those words back to myself whenever I start to feel resentful, entitled, competitive or unappreciated with regard to my writing: “It’s not the world’s fault that you want to be an artist…now get back to work.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,...
How to Be a Truly Productive Blogger

How to Be a Truly Productive Blogger

If you could order it off a menu you would. “I’ll take the life changer please. You know, the holiday where I get to indulge in the best food on the planet, quiet my deeper self and discover true, passionate love. That one.” Reality check please! The majority of us...
How to Touch the Hearts of Our Readers

How to Touch the Hearts of Our Readers

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ~ Dale Carnegie Every blogger searches for that royal road. We want to touch hearts of our readers – that’s why we talk about their children, their food, their homes, their hobbies,...
201 Tips to Jump Start Your Creativity

201 Tips to Jump Start Your Creativity

Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. ~ Anais Nin Creativity is like sex. You fumble your way through, you get lost in it, you fall in love. Both are...