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 PDR-Kellie | Apr 5, 2018 | Creativity, Internet, Knitting, Manitoba, Mowat, Nature, Writing Life
Despite the Arctic airmass that’s been hanging over us, plunging temperatures into the minus double digits, spring is coming. The snow is ever-so-slowly receding towards the forest shadows, the geese are returning, and the other day I saw a seagull soar over our...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 15, 2018 | Contemplations, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Process, Writers, Writing Life
I’ve been returning to the roots of writing practice lately. To the book I bought and cracked open as I was crossing the Georgia Strait between Tsawwassen and Vancouver Island on my way to Salt Spring Island, circa 1993. Back then, as I read the first pages of...
by PDR-Kellie | Mar 8, 2018 | Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Process, Teaching, Winter, Workshops, Writers, Writing Life
I’m stuck on Chapter Four. Partly because I’ve spent the past five days working to eradicate some of the beige that covers every wall (well, except for bathroom’s combo of ’80s aqua and stark white and the kitchen’s half-and-half neon...
by Lauren Carter | Mar 1, 2018 | Contemplations, Courses, Creativity, Creativity Coaching, Internet, Issues, Process, Writing Life
The ground is under my feet. Snow turning soft, ridged snowmobile trails collapsing into black earth in the fields where we run our dog. In the early morning, the blue jays show up to eat the sunflower seeds that the red squirrel has knocked out of the feeder....
