Summer Vacation
What do you say this summer we all start a writing project? Nothing fancy. Just something to do during those moments of peace; those sunny pauses.
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Reboot and Reclaim
Starting – or Restarting – at the Beginning. By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Now that I’ve put The Right to Write behind me – and am almost done with Bird By Bird – I thought it made sense to pick up another old favorite: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. […]
Read more "Reboot and Reclaim"Tackling Tricky Little Ideas
By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Another hectic Monday and I don’t when I’m going to find the time to write (beyond my daily morning pages, of course!). Catching up after a week out of the office means meetings and emails…so many, many emails. Life goes on, and the pace only quickens […]
Read more "Tackling Tricky Little Ideas"“Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.”
Glass Houses By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Do opinions matter? Are we writing to please others or from some internal need to express ourselves creatively? And does it matter if your writing falls flat or flies high, if you can’t find satisfaction in what you’ve created? It’s a struggle to write […]
Read more "“Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.”"Who’s your audience?
By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Writing from the nooks and crannies again today since I’m still on the road. As I’ve been conducting meet-and-greets and interviews, the big question that keeps being asked is “who’s your reader?” It’s a tricky business, focusing on who’s consuming your content rather than the content […]
Read more "Who’s your audience?"Narrative Timelines
Plunging into the Past By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer In addition to the morning pages – which I’ve talked about at length in previous posts – another writing tool suggested by Julia Cameron is the Narrative Timeline. The idea is to write out the story of your life, in five-year […]
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Just a short little note today about the importance of breaks. Just like the rhythms in your writing, your writing life ebbs and flows. Sometimes you feel like you can write through the night. Sometimes just one sentence can seem like a Bataan death march. It’s okay to ease up from the throttle once in […]
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Metaphors offer us the chance to concurrently elaborate on our ideas and focus our intent.
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(Just a quick note – the next few entries will short and sweet because I’m on the road. Next week we’ll get back to our regularly scheduled broadcasts) Who Do You Want to Be? By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer Are you having doubts today? Not exactly sure you’re headed in the […]
Read more "Desire and Destiny"“There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality” ― Maurice Sendak
The Truth About Artist Dates By Elizabeth Cutright © 2012 The Daily Creative Writer I wasn’t off to a glorious start. After discovering that my socks had lost all their elastic and were determined to ride down past my heels and clump up under the arch of my foot, I chose to keep on hiking […]
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