One of Those Days
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] One of Those Days There are days when just nothing seems to work out. Everything you touch seems to go down the drain. Your writing sucks, people around you are bad with you, you're low on energy, nothing seems to work out. You try to...
Getting lost on Pinterest? Again?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Getting lost on Pinterest? Again? "But I'm researching", you might argue. Yes, maybe you are. And maybe you're wasting your time. How do you know the difference? There is an easy way to distinguish between the two. Are you doing it consciously? With a specific outcome in mind?...
How Much Courage Will It Take?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How Much Courage Will It Take? Let's suppose you want to go a certain way. But you can't. Because there is a red light. What do you do? You make a choice. Either, you force your way ahead in the intended direction, cross the street, trying not...
Be bad!
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Be bad! Writing freely is easy. What keeps most people from doing it is their perfectionism. They believe, what they put on the page needs to be perfect. So, while they intend to create, they keep stopping their creative juices by criticizing themselves. In order to write...
Make Inspiration Find You
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Make Inspiration Find You There is this mystical concept about inspiration that nobody really can explain. But every writer seems to hope for it to strike. Many believe you are "lucky" when it does. And apparently it finds some people more often than others. Because how...
How to Get Sh*t Done
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How to Get Sh*t Done When I was in Costa Rica last summer I went to a co-working space to work on one of my screenplays. Their Wi-Fi password was getsh*tdone@...
My Creativity Spark
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] My Creativity Spark Sometimes when I feel I need a little inspiration I will watch a short video that inspires me, for example a movie trailer. Or I will turn on a great motion picture score. Sometimes I watch other writers talk about their work. One of...
You Did It!
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] You Did It! When was the last time you celebrated yourself? When was the last time you celebrated your writing? We tend to focus on the things that are not good, that we need to improve, that are still missing or are not yet working, in our...
Why talent is bad for you
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Why talent is bad for you There is a great book from Carol Dweck about fixed mindset versus growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe that their talents define what they can and cannot do. In other words, if they are lucky to be talented...