Creative habits: glimpses from around here lately
Creative habits form slowly, and as I’ve been making them new, I’ve found that every action I take must be intentional: prioritizing what’s important over what’s urgent; really sinking into...
View ArticleLet the choices you make today be the ones that make you glad
It’s before the dawn and I’m up. The choice is mine. Hello writing practice. Hello day. I lie in bed for a minute or maybe five, feeling the way my mind slips like a gymnast between one state and...
View ArticleResistance to change, creative habits, and Sprout is growing up
It’s taken us too long, really, to be firm. To take a stand. To say enough’s enough. But to be honest, we were resistant to making the change because we were both a little afraid of what taking it...
View Article5 things to fuel your creative soul this weekend:
1. Review all the notes you’ve jotted down throughout the week. I often take notes on my phone, but if I don’t make it a ritual on the weekend, I forget the thing’s I’ve noted there. 2. Start a...
View ArticleWeekending
I pull the shades open to find rain spattering against the window-glass, then dive back under the soft-polka dotted coverlet, homing to the warmth T radiates. For a while we lie this way, just...
View ArticleAnd, and, and, and…
I’m ready to let go of and. Between the first of the new year, and my birthday (on Sunday!) a ritual of mine is to go back through the previous year’s notebooks–capturing story blueprints, noting...
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