by AuthorSue | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorised
Those of us who spend time working in the arts, specifically creating new art – be it written, musical, visual – know instinctively that our brains work differently. We know that the hours of learning and practice have helped to develop areas of our brains...
by AuthorSue | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorised
There is an old adage that says you should write what you know. And I agree – as long as you take the idea of ‘what you know’ very broadly. For example, there are many writers who have written novels about places they have only been to briefly or not...
by AuthorSue | Feb 25, 2020 | Uncategorised
Logo of the Brain Pickings blog by Maria Popova Here is a newsletter and blog which I want to share with my friends and readers. Brain Pickings is, in Maria’s own words, a labor of love which she has continued weekly for over thirteen years. It pops up in my...
by AuthorSue | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
I feel compelled to write about the coronavirus, even though it is not the sort of topic I would normally include in my blog posts. I left the US for my annual two-month stay in SE Asia on February 6. The virus already existed but seemed to be contained to mainland...
by AuthorSue | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorised
Many writers teach. My teaching has taken on a life of its own and led me to found the international non-profit called Writing Through. We’ve accomplished a great deal over the five years of our existence, now working in Cambodia, Vietnam and Singapore. Happily,...
by AuthorSue | Feb 4, 2020 | Uncategorised
I recently wrote a blog about being creative here. In it I asserted that we are all creative beings, and that we hold ourselves back too often. My friend and fellow writer, Joe Stein, had the following insightful comment: I also think that some folk have a tendency to...
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