Tag: creativity
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Visual Writing Prompts – Day 1
Author Robin Rivers shares writing prompts that combine famous paintings and literary guides.
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On Being Distracted
Novelist and writing coach Robin Rivers talks about self-shaming, writing, and wonders how to honour the down times as an author.
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The Summer Reading Challenge Quilt
Writing Coach Robin Rivers shows how her students are creating a Summer Reading Challenge Quilt as they complete their Summer reading lists.
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On The Act Of Putting Yourself Out There
Musings on the great writer’s question, “Am I good enough?”
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Day 31 – Productivity& The Collapse of Time
Productive days are the best kind. The total absorption into material and storytelling becomes meditative. The devotion to ideas and evolution of that story sparks a magic. When it was all over, I couldn’t even remember which Writer’s Studio day it was. In the midst of it all, my brother and I even managed to […]
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Day 24 – Gardening As Food For Writing
After my reminiscing with the spirea in the neighbour’s yard, I went home and tried to write. Nothing. Some days, nothing comes out. That is generally a sign that I need to rest the active brain and let the passive brain take over. My husband is a big fan of passive-brain creativity and, I have […]
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Day 21 – In The Writer’s Studio
Day 21 in the writer’s studio – writing isn’t all about the actual act of writing. Cultivation of creativity comes in lots of forms. For me, daily yoga practice means those hours sitting won’t collapse my spine, those hours thinking won’t send me off into unproductive feedback loops, and those hours imagining come constantly from […]
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