by AuthorSue | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorised
I have been keeping a journal for decades. Historically, I haven’t written in them each and every day. Sometimes I’ve gone a month or more without journaling. But the shelf of black, lined Moleskin books stands as a testimony to how important these...
by AuthorSue | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorised
courtesy of yaleherald.com My friend asked the following question: What are the sensations that arise directly from writing? I mean the cognitive and emotional aspects. I ask because I find that I’ve had to pay more attention to this recently in order to stay on...
by AuthorSue | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorised
We all know the old saying about turning lemons into lemonade. Well, the present global situation is making it difficult for even the most ardent of optimists to accomplish that bit of alchemy. But difficult or not, there is a corner of the human spirit that strives...
by AuthorSue | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorised
It’s easy to think that all this isolation will breed all sorts of writing. The sparks of creativity might be there, but do you have the energy, both physically and mentally, to actually act on those sparks? I know that I have only been able to focus on writing...
by AuthorSue | Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorised
Last week, I wrote about living without assumptions here. Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about how a lack of assumptions can actually lead to creativity. There is that old saying, necessity is the mother of invention. But perhaps we can replace...
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