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Finally Succumbed to NaNoWriMo

50,000 words or more in a month. That's the challenge set by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Leave the editing to December, they say. For November, just concentrate on getting out the words. So many per day. Every day. Sound advice. The sort of advice I give...

Remembering How To Create

It's easy to forget the principles of going creative. And even easier to forget to practice. Here's a ditty to help us remember: Connect to all I touch. Hear. Smell. Taste. See. Return to now. Enter what is. Let it be. Allow life to teach what I most need to know....

The Multitasking Myth

The discovery in 2007 of a “bottleneck in the brain” showed that multitasking is not productive. Doing even just two tasks, both very simple, involves negotiating three bottlenecks in the brain. Deciding which we want to give our primary attention to. The...

Overcoming Self-Sabotage

When you set out to create something, the conventional, conditioned part of you sets off fear alarms, in the form of resistance and self-sabotage. Stephen Pressfield's book Turning Pro, talks a lot about this tendency, which he calls resistance, in terms of the...