Tag: failure

Staying Encouraged

At some point, every writer wonders if his or her stories are important, and if anyone will ever care about them.  .  . I told him writing, like Tai Chi, was internal, not external. It is about feeling and honesty, if something wants to come out, it needs to come out.  One has to set…

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Creativity vs. Craft

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. ~ Oscar Wilde One thing that makes nurturing my creativity hard is the difficulty in accepting that failure is necessary in the process of learning the craft, that the learning curve is messy and long, and the frustrations are endless.  It might…

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Sometimes The Grass Is Greener

Today’s theme for Six Word Friday is “over” and what popped into my head was: Sometimes grass IS greener over there. Now I’m not saying that I want to spend my time envying what others have or being ungrateful for what I have myself.  That is a surefire way to make myself miserable and reaching…

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