by Lauren Carter | Mar 19, 2020 | Creativity Coaching, Health, Internet, Process, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
So… how are you? I mean it. How are you? In my quiet household, where the animals don’t seem to be aware that anything’s wrong (except for Mowat’s amped-up need for evening cuddles as I watch The National), we are muddling along. Talking every...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 5, 2020 | Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Events, Retreats, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been lucky to attend lots of retreats. There was a silent, five-day Vipassana meditation retreat back home in Ontario a couple of decades ago, and the memorable Sage Hill Writing Experience in 2014, where I spent two weeks working with an amazing group of...
by Lauren Carter | Feb 14, 2020 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Process, Writers, Writing Life
Once I coached a woman who could not bring herself to write. She spoke of her longing and of abstract story concepts but she didn’t jot down a word no matter what I suggested. Then, at the end of a couple of months together, her heart broke. Literally. She...
by Lauren Carter | Feb 6, 2020 | Creativity, Creativity Coaching, News, Process, Writers, Writing Life
EDIT (03/16/2020): This group is now wide open to help bring together writers during these COVID-19 times of self-isolation… My creative and working life feels like a bit of a ramble sometimes. I mean, I’m walking a clear path, but I tend to branch off a...
by Lauren Carter | Jan 30, 2020 | Creativity Coaching, Process, Teaching, Writers, Writing Life
“How do I write?” people sometimes ask me. And it’s clear that this is a big question, one they’ve been carrying around for a long time. A yearning, really. “You write,” I say, as gently as I can. Then I suggest: start with 10...
by Lauren Carter | Jan 16, 2020 | Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Process, Writing Life
These days, I’m working on the fourth draft of a strange, new novel. It is largely plot-driven so sometimes I wake in the night with an aggravating case of “what ifs.” What if this happened… Could it? Do I dare? Yes, I do! I get up, stumble to...
