#MemoirFest Day 1 Prompt: Write about a House For now, don’t overanalyze this prompt, but just think about one specific house from your past–or even your current house–and free-write about it. The house could be your childhood home or your grandmother’s house or your Great Aunt Ada’s house. Just think about a house that you…
Category: Writer’s Block
Beat Procrastination – Make A List & Reward Yourself
You Can’t Build A Reputation On What You Are Going to Do – Henry Ford – Procrastination is a beast, and I deal with it daily. Among other people, it feasts off of BlockedCreatives. Procrastination may be a result of Fear or Perfectionism, or it might be caused by any number of emotional issue, but…
Let’s Allow Ourselves to Be Imperfect – Perfectionism Is An Enemy to the Creative
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life…. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway…
Take A Day to Clear Out Some of the Clutter in Your Life and Home
You have decided to start writing your memoir. Good for you. Memoir writing is great for several reasons. I recommend writing a memoir as a first step for every person who wants to write in any genre. Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women is autobiographical. It is largely a re-telling of her own memories But…
Fear Is The Creator’s Worst Enemy – It Traps Us & Prevents Us From Moving Forward – Fear Causes a Type of Death
Fear is the worst thing that can happen to anyone who hopes to create. Fear Is A Type of Prison. Fear prevents the painter from painting, and it forces the writer to edit himself literally to death. Barbara de Angelis wrote an excellent treatise on Fear in her book Secrets About Life Every Woman…
Write Memoir to End Your Creative Blocks – Write to Reclaim Your Passion
About 3 weeks ago, I began writing daily again, and this time, I began that process by writing in my Garden Journal: I initially began my practice of writing daily via my work with Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. The Artist’s Way is a process toward emotional and/or creative healing via the practice of writing daily….