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 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 | 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 | Aug 30, 2019 | Events, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing Life
Well, it’s nearly fall. Up here, outside of Winnipeg, the leaves are already transitioning to their autumn tones of amber and red, and the showy mountain ash tree we planted in the spring is full of birds building up their stores for the long flight south. In...
