Every birthday makes me think about what I’m building.
Not just the years behind me, but the work I’m putting into the world. The words I choose to share, the stories I tell, and the honesty I return to again and again. Writing has always been more than something I do. It’s how I survive, process, and make meaning out of life.
So this year, instead of candles or cards, I’m asking for something…
You don’t need a huge audience to build community — every small post, comment, or story you share can be a spark. Show up as you are, connect with even one person, and you’re doing the work. #WritingCommunity #GentleGrowth #BuildYourVillage
How to Build Community Through Your Writing (Even Small Posts Count)
Freelancing gets lonely, especially when you’re #Neurodivergent, #disabled or introverted. You don’t need 10k followers; you just need the right 10 people. Here’s how to build a gentle, real creative community online #WritingCommunity
When Freelance Feels Lonely: Building Your Own Creative Community Online
Mutual aid is how we keep the Dreamspace alive. Support fellow writers—donate, share, trade, or just cheer them on. Every act of solidarity matters. Join our #WritersAgainstHunger team for Feed America! 🕯️ #MutualAid #WritingCommunity
How Mutual Aid Keeps the Dreamspace Alive: A Guide for Creators Supporting Creators
There’s no easy way to say this, but you’re going to have to talk to someone.
You’re going to have to share.
You’re going to have to be even more uncomfortable than you already are just to get through it all.
While this can definitely apply to many things in life, I’m referring to writing right now. Let’s do crush our WIPs together
Peruse the communities tab, find a writing community to be a part of, and join! Don’t just lurk, put yourself out there. Have fun! Make friends and enemies, whatever fuels your writing fire.
(╯°u°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ♡
Push each other to grow and finish your dreams together.
Hope this helps! Happy writing! ✌︎︎♡⃛
Extra credit:
Take a screenshot of the community you chose in your reblog :)
As a side note, I also created a writing community of my own! It’s got a different aesthetic, but don’t let the vibe throw you, it’s still me! There are a couple rules for joining, but don’t let it stop you from stopping by :D
We artists have to stick together. Tumblr’s reblog culture is honestly awful these days, bc ppl keep scrolling past art & writing and the stuff that does get reblogged is often memes and that’s fine but …
We as artists - be we writers, animators, digital artists, traditional artists etc. - spent a lot of time on our art, and not getting engagement on it is really disheartening bc we poured our sweat and tears and love into our creations.
That’s why we should honestly come together and help each other out with sharing our creations.
There has never been a time that was perfect to start.
You’ll never run out of possible reasons why you should wait.
When you remember the one reason why you absolutely should start, take that chance.
If you want to create a work, a habit, or a product, you know the impulse to just begin - and the inhibition that often comes with that.
Taking the first step can feel disproportionately hard compared to the actual effort it needs.
To write the first word, strike the first chord, or make the first phone call isn’t actually that difficult, but it can feel like a massive challenge because the act holds so much meaning.
We think that once we open that door, we can’t go back.
We are tied to the plan we made and that’s scary.
A whole bunch of “what if’s?” inhibit us from taking action.
But that constraint we feel is an illusion.
We can always stop. Go back. Fail.
Actually, it’s much more likely over time that we’ll stop something rather than proceed forever.
But that shouldn’t prevent us from ever starting to build an idea because you have unlimited starting opportunities with ideas.
You may lack the financial ground to build a business but you never lack the permission to pursue an idea.
You’re not running out of lives in the creative game.
If one thing doesn’t work, try another.
Perhaps the cosmic supercomputer of evolution had to try again and again and again to create life.
What if it had never started?
Drunk and pleasant
I have the best friends
I don’t know if this is the real me
But it’s present and aware
And grateful most of all
Which is all I can ask for
<3
I’m ‘Creative of the Month’ at #creativenorthernbeaches! Yay! Thank you!
A big shout out to my local Northern Beaches Council for supporting both my creative practice and business this month! Their Arts & Cultural Development team very kindly featured me in their creative enews, which goes out to lots and lots of people across Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Yay!! Thank you Northern Beaches Council Arts & Cultural Development team!
But wait, there’s more…!
Not only…
NaNoWriMo 2019 was a great love affair that I intend to continue on into the next year and beyond
This has probably been my happiest year of NaNoWriMo but it had nothing to do with winning. (more…)
Every year I work at building my career as a writer. There’s no grand plan, just a desire to reach out to readers where possible, share my experiences and gain new ones. My main method is to ‘say yes to everything’ and see how it goes.
Which is why 2018 started with an author talk at the Booklovers Club and ended with one too! Back in January I was busy promoting my novel Towards Whiteand got…
◞ MASTERLIST DOS 10 NOMES MAIS COMUNS NOS REINOS DE EZMORR
[[MORE]]Abaixo do corte você encontrará uma lista com os 10 nomes mais comuns de cada reino (aplicável) em Ezmorr, dentre os quais haverão nomes femininos (F), masculinos (M) e unissex (U). Eles poderão ser usados como base ou inspiração (para variantes) em caso de dúvidas sobre como chamar seu futuro personagem. E, como dito anteriormente, não há o critério de ser um nome com significados atrelados ao reino. Um habitante de Terram poderá ser associado a uma flor, árvore ou ser da natureza, se assim x Player quiser, bem como, ao invés, este poderia escolher um nome que remetesse a “força”, “ambição”, “vitória”, “sangue” e qualquer outra característica que não é comum ao reino da terra, visto que as idealizadoras deste RPG acreditam que tamanho “título” é capaz de dizer muito mais do que apenas a localidade dos ezmorrianos. É um símbolo que pode carregar algo que um dia tenha sido marcante aos seus progenitores, ou uma simples expressão de criatividade, ao criar algo do qual nenhum outro foi chamado antes.
- Ambrosia (F)
- Caecilia (F)
- Prudentia (F)
- Tasia (F)
- Angelus (M)
- Cornelius (M)
- Iulian (M)
- Justus (M)
- Syran (U)
- Columba (U)
- Beatrix (F)
- Hertha (F)
- Lakhesis (F)
- Volcatia (F)
- Blasius (M)
- Simo (M)
- Dante (M)
- Brutus (M)
- Maximian (U)
- Ustri (U)
- Aelia (F)
- Iantha (F)
- Ulyssa (F)
- Vena (F)
- Albus (M)
- Gaius (M)
- Lucioni (M)
- Isai (M)
- Clemens (U)
- Ange (U)
- Lenore/Lenora (F)
- Rowina (F)
- Petra (F)
- Tedusia (F)
- Alerio (M)
- Thomas (M)
- Fidelis (M)
- Magnus (M)
- Celer (U)
- Illumi (U)
- Decima (F)
- Iosepha (F)
- Sidony (F)
- Undina/Undine (F)
- Hugo (M)
- Caecilus (M)
- Nathan (M)
- Giles (M)
- Alexus/Alexis (U)
- Iovita (U)
Florus (M), Janus (M), Leo (M), Liber (M), Peregrine/Peregrinus (M), Rex (M), Devan (U), Dominique (U), Fran (U), Alba (F), Alma (F), Constantia (F), Coralie (F), Corona (F), Flora (F), Maia (F), Naenia (F), Amor (U), Benedictus (M), Benignus (M).
What Does Impact Look Like To You?
Sometimes as a writer it’s hard to know how much impact your words are having in the world. After all, how do you monitor ‘impact’ – by sales figures, fan mail, awards, the number of stories you’ve published, Twitter follower figures, or something else?
I like to think of it in terms of whether my words are enabling me to do what I want to do in life. Right now I’m lucky enough to run a successfu…
How to support amazing creativesThere are so many incredibly talented people in this world yet not enough people take the time to fully appreciate what they do. If you want to support amazing creatives in your community, or even outside of it then you have to be more than just talk. Liking a tweet from a poet or writing a quick “Love this!” on a style bloggers, Instagram is simply not enough.
Capitol Theatre | Capitol Wedding
Capitol Theatre | Capitol Wedding Capitol Theatre, We are the team with highly qualified and experienced for the Photography And Video Shooting . Here we are using the latest and modern technology for creating the quality Images and videos , We have the experienced of 20 years in the field of photography.It was started in 1996.We can capture your dreams and imaginations through our camera eyes.We…
The Process of Process
During the week of our last One Creative Week Challenge, I spent a lot of time thinking about process. After all, the focus of the last challenge was on the process of photography. Each day I walked around with the prompt in my mind, turning it over and over, looking for a vignette, a moment, …
Kid-Made Softie Tutorial - Basic Sewing for Kids
Whether your little one is off to their first day of school, first play date, or first dentist appointment there are bound to be some nerves (heck, even if their outing isn’t a “first” sometimes little bodies have BIG feelings!) Taking along a stuffed animal – or softie…
Permission NOT to Share Your Work
Last week Thursday after the kids were put to bed and my husband and I sat chatting at the dining room table, I was reduced to a blubbering mess, crying big heavy hot tears. You’re wondering why. Of course you are. Well, I had a deadline that night. At midnight I had to submit the first…
Onward http://wp.me/sKes0-onward
Dear Readers, I’m publishing my first book, my novella, Hello Morning, on Tuesday, November 25, 2014.
