by Orna Ross | Nov 1, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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....
by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The key to creative success is excess, suggests Anais Nin, because creation comes from overflow. “You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. “… Creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to...
by Orna Ross | Sep 10, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
by Orna Ross | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Novel Excerpt: “Sometimes, not too often, really not often at all, I allow myself a small imagining. Not a why-oh-why, or a what-if; something closer to a dream. “It is dusk in summer and we are walking towards the lake. The fading light has greyed the...