by Kathryn | 18 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Four
Jump straight to today's prompt here. I’m wary, as I send you these daily notes, of loading you up too much, sending you out to the world with a full agenda, a list of creative things to do. When in fact I want, really, to send you inwards. To think. To wait. To...
by Kathryn | 17 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Four
Jump straight to today's prompt here. How are you going with the writing prompts, I wonder? You might now be noticing some themes emerging in the writing of those prompts. The purpose of that daily writing prompt is to let you tune in to your instinct, tune in to the...
by Kathryn | 16 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Four
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Writers are also readers. Most writers I know – in fact, all writers I know – are passionate about the books they love, and they read a lot. Reading is absorption, it’s passion, it’s relaxation, it’s research, it’s inspiration....
by Kathryn | 15 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Four
Jump straight to today's prompt here. I get it. Embarking on a book – a whole world, no less – can feel daunting. I mean, you’re magicking up a whole world from the bare bones of your imagination (that, my friends, is what we call a mixed metaphor. You’re welcome.)...
by Kathryn | 14 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Four
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Sometimes, an idea arrives fully formed. Sometimes a character taps on your door and stands there impatiently waiting. Sometimes it’s clear. But often it’s not. Often, the thing that you want to write is muddy, or messy. You have...
by Kathryn | 13 Jun 2023 | Flow: Week Four
Jump straight to today's prompt here. In writing, we look for threshold moments – these moments of cusp or transition. The Finnish writer Tove Jansson – creator of the Moomins and writer of great wisdom – wrote about these moments as borders. As an island...
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