Often being creative includes taking more risks. But risks can be scary. How do you keep your risk-taking strong and lose some of the fear? How can you practice and strengthen that muscle so that when something comes along, the risk seems less, well, risky? Start small and you can start to shift the energy [...]
As I get ready to send my novel manuscript to my two readers (a writing friend and a friend of a friend), I am (slightly) faltering in my confidence in my work. Perhaps it was having to figure out a funky formatting problem. Maybe I’ve stared at the screen-pages-screen too much. Maybe it’s because I’m [...]
photo credit: M i x y Kids love to ask questions. So much so, that adults tend to tune them out after a little while. Okay, so if that happened to us as kids, did we just stop asking questions? Or did we stop learning how to ask? If you are trying to harness your [...]