by Jocosa Wade | Sep 30, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, whores of negativity, Writers life
One of the basic tools for Julia Cameron’s the Artist’s Way 12-week program is the Artist Date. A block of time, perhaps two hours weekly, especially set aside and committed to nurturing your creative consciousness, your inner artist. In its most primary form, the...
by Jocosa Wade | Sep 24, 2020 | Inspiration, Writers life
My neighbor and I barely see each other. We literally can’t see each other because her house sits on the hill behind mine and is obscured by the forest between us. Acres of land surround all the houses in the area where I live. About once a month we wave from our...
by Jocosa Wade | Sep 15, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, Writers life, Writing tools
The Hours opens with Virginia Woolf’s most famous line. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Woolf, played by Nicole Kidman, scratches out those words via fountain pen and the story of Mrs. Dalloway appears to flow without effort from there. Of...
by Jocosa Wade | Sep 9, 2020 | Inspiration, whores of negativity, Writers life
2008— I attend my first Surrey International Writers Conference. An eye-opening experience that seared my brain with this truth— I knew nothing about writing, not even after completing three novel-length manuscripts; I understood zilch about writing a novel, a story,...