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Building Boundaries As an Adult Saved My Writing

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Over the past year and a half or so, I’ve been focused on building boundaries as an adult. This has not only given me more time to work on my writing, but it has saved my mental health. This blog has been around for a while now, and even longer when you think about all […]

How to Get Creativity Back

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You used to feel like an artist, but life happened and now you want to know how to get creativity back. Well. You’re in luck because you never lost it. I believe everyone is creative. But a lot of people choose not to use their creativity or they aren’t in a place where they have […]

How to Believe in Your Writing When You’ve Lived Your Life in Books

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Writers live inside their heads most of the time. They spend lifetimes in the stories of others and resent the time they have to spend focused on the basic tasks of being a human. That’s why learning how to believe in your writing can be so hard–your human experience comes from others and not necessarily […]

13 Ways to Live Like an Artist

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Why do we tend to feel like an inspired, creative life is so out of reach? It’s because choosing to live like an artist can often look like the opposite of the way most people live. And this tends to be why most artists feel like outsiders and normies feel like artists are weirdos. Your […]

Finding Creative Ease Through Play

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Ideas and inspiration don’t come out of nowhere. There’s a lot of work that goes into feeling original or inventive. Luckily, a lot of that work is actually play. Finding a sense of creative ease in your day-to-day life can help you feel more inspired and productive. Let’s talk about how you can play around […]

Keep Your Writing Time Sacred

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Generally speaking, this blog is a place for the profane and unholy. Not like, in an intentional way. I’m just a secular girl who was raised in a secular home and now leads a perfectly secular life. Even so, your writing time is sacred, and you should keep it that way. I don’t know a […]