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The concept of the Muses comes to us from Ancient Greco-Roman mythology. According to the most popular tale, Zeus, in his usual fashion,...

This week, as we celebrate Thanksgiving in America, I like to take time to think about things I'm grateful for in different areas of my...

When your work involves being creative, it's hard to come up with new ideas day after day, hour after hour. To maintain a creative life,...

Here's a photo prompt for the week. What happens when two people see each other for the first time? Love? Hate? Fear? Envy? For me, this...

I love to use a prompt along with a picture! Use either or a combination of both to kick start your writing! I'll also be posting a quick...

Happy Father's Day! To help celebrate all the fathers in our lives, here's a little writing inspiration using a photograph of a man and...

Today is Earth Day, and this year marks the 50th annual celebration to support environmental protection. Check out the amazing line-up of...

It's National Poetry Month! Ready to celebrate? Join me in this FREE hour-long creative writing workshop as we use Myths and Curses as...

If you're like most people, receiving feedback on your creative work isn't one of your favorite activities. Even for the toughest of...

If you've ever struggled with what to write, whether in a journal, a poem, a story, a blog post, or even as part of a creative nonfiction...

I'm offering FREE virtual creativity events each week through March and April. There's one happening TODAY at 12 PM (Pacific)! Our topic...

Feeling disconnected? You're not alone! Join our creative tribe as we talk about the creative life together in the Early Week Evening...

Times are tough, making it hard to stay creative. Here are several ways you can journal your way back to creativity! How can journaling...

Other people's routines and the processes behind their creative (and non-creative) work fascinates me. It always has. Including how...

It's NaNoWriMo and many of us are writing away at new stories and writing projects. If you're anything like me, you start writing because...

It's the eleventh of November. And that means we're almost halfway through NaNoWriMo. No, you didn't read that word wrong and it's not...

Over the past few weeks, I've been dealing with an unhappy person.  This person is angry at someone else, and I got caught in the...

Facebook and poetry may not seem like they go together - at least not from the perspective of using Facebook to generate poetry. But I'm...

Maybe you've been lucky and never drawn a blank when sitting down to write. But if you're like me (and most people), you've sat and...

One of the best things about being writers is that we get to play with reality. When we craft fiction, poetry, and even creative...