by Lauren Carter | Apr 30, 2020 | Creativity, Family, Poetry, Publications, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been writing a lot lately – that’s what happens when you commit to pick up the pen pretty much every day, for at least twenty minutes. Some fiction (one of the prompts that I gave in one of my live-streaming sessions through my Write Ramble...
by Lauren Carter | Apr 2, 2020 | Creativity, Events, Poetry, Readings, Writers, Writing Life
This slow morning, the cat gets us up with his insistent meowing to be fed. J. and I take care of the animals, then recline on the couch for coffee. We watch the snow slanting out of a purple-grey sky and talk about narrow-boating in Yorkshire canals (reminiscing over...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 26, 2020 | Creativity, Process, Writers, Writing Life
One of my mantras when I’m working on long-term writing projects is a single word. Patience. I mutter this to myself often as I’m writing through a first draft and, once that’s completed, when I have to type up whole novels written in longhand in...
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...
