The ember months

 

When  we progress into our later years, like the last four months  of the year known as the ember months , these years becomes our ember  months --glowing and burning ever brightly with character, grace, and faith.

The New Year of 2013

To inspire and motivate ourselves in our writing, particularly in writers' block moments, we can try approaching this New Year by doing something different each day and getting out of our comfort zone. Complacency is indeed the death of creativity.... So try a new approach to New Year's resolutions and check out this site... www.365thingsin365days.com. This is one way of breaking out of the norm of being mediocre. Wishing everyone all the best for 2013. Happy New Year !

Creativity

In the ever- rushed world of the 21st century, we never take the time to nurture something is inherent and organic within all of us ... and that is Creativity.


I believe that Creativity is a spontaneous process erupting from the soul within...

If you take the time out of each day for such nurturing , then it will be reflected in your writing endeavours.

Canadian Discovery Portal-- for your research

www.canadiana.org is a great new search engine that searches 60 million pages of info from library, museum, and archives collections from Canada.

Use it to do your research for your writing.

Online branding and you

Branding is about identifying your rainbow of talent and applying it with a plethora of passion in your well -researched target areas.

Your online brand should have the WOW factor but this needs to be accompanied by authenticity.

Your brand—your tag line for your online portfolio—has to be a ladle dropper. Like listening to Ted Koppul s great new stories, this tag line—makes you drop your ladle asyou are cooking in the kitchen and run to the TV set.

Humber College writing courses go online

Thought you might be interested in this one...





Humber College part-time writing courses go online- no grades given- just support & guidance.


Contact :steve.bellamy@humber.ca- 416-675-6622 x 3450.

Journalling and the year 2011

As we begin a new year, I thought it might be nice to revisit the benefits of journalling in my life and in others.. Journalling is a wonderful way of seeing your life- both professionally as a writer and personally- in a different light.

So here again are the main benefits of journalling:

-getting clarity re: what you want in your life.

-Creating and setting boundaries.

-Ferreting out life goals.

-Beginning a journey to walking your own pathway.

-Tapping into your intrapersonal/ retrospective side by means of reflection.

-Helping you take yourself and others through the experiential learning cycle.


-Finding hidden talents and abilities within your authentic self

-Finding the positive strengths in yourself and others, and building on them

For a great guidebook on journalling, you can check out my journalling workbook at " A Year in Serendipity: A Journalling
Workbook"http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal .

All the best for 2011

Building and Nurturing Harmony in Your Writing

Dr. Ian Prattis , founder of Friends for Peace Canada, who is a Zen teacher, speaker and writer about the well-being of the planet . He is a writer of articles for Guidelines to Recreate Our World based on the teachings of Zen.

He believes the source of peace in the world is a peaceful mind.

This also applies to your writng. To create this environment , you have to work on transforming the seeds of fear of failure and rejection by cultivating peace within its inner core.

Sometimes, such an environment can be nurtured simply by being at peace within yourself. Peace happens one step , one person, and one mind at a time. Yes, it can take internal work to achieve this... Some people can work towards this through meditation, Tai Chi, and Qi Qong and other programs that can reduce stress and negative emotions.

Yes, it is possible to change the human mind set-- when dealing with perils of being a writer.

Scrapbooking-- a writer's inspiration

As a writer of a one-of-a-kind journaling workbook “ A Year in Serendipity” http://
tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal -written to help people in their life and career goal
attainment, I have come to experience first-hand some of the unique insights
regarding how to use scrapbooking in both my professional and personal life.

There are some very wonderful and inspiring practical reasons for scrapbooking.

Yes, indeed, it can be a multifaceted technique/approach to career and life management and planning. For example, it can be applied by writers in autobiographies, diaries and even as a professional career portfolio/webfolio/ blog.

Scrapbooking, in a life skills sense, can be employed to focus on motivating and
inspiring moments , and even to retrace a journey to life transforming/ life –changing moment(s). For instance, you can immortalize a pictorial of a significant historical event you were involved in , or an episode of personal achievement that changed your life forever.



Scrapbooking can be one way to figure out who you used to be, how you got to be who you are today, while at the same , rediscovering the journey that got you there.

The possibilities for its uses and benefits for writing are limitless.

Advisory panel --Mastermind group for writing goals

How many of us have an advisory panel-- mastermind group-- that you can access for feedback to evaluate your writing goals.

Such persons can guide, motivate and mentor us... But choose wisely-- try to choose people whose strengths are your weaknesses, and come from very diverse backgrounds and writing perspectives.

Goal setting and achievements for your writing

For goal setting and achievement re your writing projects, do a photo collage to inspire and motivate yourself, especially when facing writer s block.

Place it in a prominent position and it will be imprinted on your mind... You will find it quite effective as a visual reminder and energizer, I am sure.