Allowing yourself to write sloppy sentences, or draw an imperfect picture, or to keep playing a song with gusto when you miss a chord is great way to invite your timid, self-conscious creativity out into the open. When you allow…
Category: Creativity
Becoming a ‘successful’ writer
A few months ago I disabled the ‘show likes’ facility on all my blog posts. Like many of us, the yardstick for measuring the ‘success’ of my writing had been reduced to how many people had ‘liked’ or shared something.…
Finding Art in the Everyday
It's wonderful to be finally living my art life. The one I've read about, planned, danced around, grasped, rejected, lost, realised. It isn't a medium like ... I'm a writer, I'm a poet, I'm a painter, I'm a dancer. No.…
A Place to Write
Having a dedicated writing space is a little dream of mine and when I get back to the Philippines on Sunday I'm committed to doing just that (even if it means moving house). Of course it might take several months…