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When your inner critique makes all the sense…

…how do you keep going?

This past month, I’ve been working on my next tarot challenge—Speak Your Truth. As I was pondering the questions, the need to shake things up a bit during this challenge came over me. Great, right? I love it when inspiration suddenly strikes.

Unfortunately, those are also the moments that—for me at least—that nastly little voice inside my head pipes up and desperately tries to waylay whatever new idea is now buzzing in my brain.

As soon as my curiosity went ‘Yes, gut, let’s shake things up indeed!’, the following thoughts tried to take hostage of my mind, in this order:Read More →

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Failure is the mother of success, someone once said.

Yes, I’m all for giving credit where credit is due, but it looks like too many people have said it. And they’re all right. Failure is the mother of success.

There is no creative process without failure. You can’t innovate without making mistakes. It’s all trial and error, and hoping something eventually sticks.

But that’s not really how we do things these days, do we?Read More →

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In a Facebook live recorded on 02 September 2019, I sat down with Halona Black to talk about starting over and creating the writing career you’ve always wanted. In this honest conversation, we talked about starting from scratch, trusting the process, starting from where you, doing what you can, and taking the time to figure things out.Read More →

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In this video, I reflect on what it was like to attend 20booksto50k Edinburgh and how it made me realise it’s about time I start walking my own talk and stay true to my creative self.

Do you walk your own talk? And have you been true to your creative self? If not, how could you become more true to your creative path?