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  • Just Some Thoughts,  Tuesday Tips

    Protecting the Inner Child

    December 18, 2018 /

    Just read Steven Barnes’s “The Hero’s Dead-End Journey”  a powerful cautionary tale about how  writers (specifically) or artists (generally) kill their creativity.

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    Wasted, Used or Savoured?

    November 6, 2018 /

    “I wasted an hour.”* Too often in the industrialized world we’re so focused on productivity—filling every tiny second with something that will lead to something else—that we forget the importance of time. The true importance. Not as something to be quantified, managed or exchanged, but as something that’s useful, flexible and wonderful. Too often we don’t understand how much so.

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    The Beauty of Boredom

    October 16, 2018 /

    “I’m bored.” When’s the last time you said that? Or been that?

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  • Just Some Thoughts,  Tuesday Tips

    Waiting for Applause

    September 18, 2018 /

    Applause is wonderful. It feels fantastic.

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  • Just Some Thoughts,  Tuesday Tips

    It’s okay if…

    August 28, 2018 /

    You don’t know where your story is going.

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