…the burlesque of inspiration

Sep 12, 2013 | blogging, creativity

If you’re blogging, you’ll know this already: keeping readers interested is like a sustained burlesque striptease. Reveal a bit, hide behind a fan. Reveal some more, shimmy! I’m an ex-dancer (not like an ex-parrot though), but I was never any good at...

9 Tips to get rhythm into your writing life

Feb 11, 2013 | coaching, creativity, writing

Most of us have an idea in our minds of a writer as someone who writes effortlessly, regularly, and has access to the Muse on demand. It can be hard to sit down and put words on a page when writing can feel stilted, clunky and artificial. Many of us secretly feel like...

Guest post on Invincible Summer

Feb 11, 2013 | coaching, creativity

Hello!Today I have a guest post up at Invincible Summer: many thanks to Jess Morrow for having me over there, it’s always fun to go visiting. You can read it here… Jess has just launched her Invincible Summer e-course as a totally re-vamped multimedia...

Noodling

Feb 11, 2013 | creativity

Have you ever wondered why we have so many of our good (even our best?) ideas in the shower? There are quite a number of theories – that we’re by ourselves, that warm water somehow draws them out, that out-of-tune singing is good for thinking, that the...

What do you know?

Feb 11, 2013 | writing

The trick, I think, is to let people know what you know. The ins and outs of your topic may seem obvious to you, but you probably spend your time working at it or thinking about it – old hat for you. Your right people, your readers, are reading you for a reason....