How play-acting can calm the brain from trauma. I remember the moment I held my childhood story in my hand. As a young author of 21 years of age, my daughter, had taken my raw notes and authored a novel titled The Wilted Rose about my life story. I felt such freedom and relief to... Continue Reading →
Create one word, one stroke, one click at a time.
Just as an athlete suffers physical injuries and losses the event, a creative person suffers emotional injuries. When your book doesn’t sell, the gallery doesn't accept your painting, and the store is unable to sell your photography artwork or craftwork. We need to heal from those emotional injuries. Just as an athlete who ignores a... Continue Reading →
Out With The Unused and Don’t Buy it New
It's out with the unused. It was on our annual family holiday that my mindset changed around clutter. I had quickly unpacked our suitcases of clothes into drawers and wardrobes and the food into kitchen cupboards and the fridge in a quality beachfront holiday unit overlooking the ocean on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. I was... Continue Reading →
Enjoy The Luxury of Time
What I am talking about here, has nothing to do with the types of luxury that we normally think of like a luxurious lifestyle, designer clothing, first-class travel, expensive cars and leisure activities, five-star holiday accommodation and the ability to employ housekeeping. I enjoyed these luxuries of life, but the joy I felt was shallow.... Continue Reading →
Flood Us With Your Prayers As Our City Floods With Water
Thousands of people have lost everything they own in the worst flooding storm in recorded history to hit my home town of Brisbane Queensland Australia. Article. A rain depression hovered over our city for three days this week dumping unprecedented torrential rain. The water level rose too quickly for many families to lift their belonging... Continue Reading →
Beware of CrazyMakers
Did you miss getting your dose of fresh air today because you missed going for a walk or bicycle ride? Does the paintbrush sit dormant on the canvas that shows no scenery, the ink of your pen still holds the unwritten words, the glue remains disconnected from the craft pieces that would make the gift... Continue Reading →
Living In The Shadow Of Your Creativity
"Support is what I need" the young creative person's heart screams out in pain. "Why can't my family just show me some support? Why does fear break out across their faces when I announce with excitement "When I grow up I want to be a writer?" Creativity in Children and Young Adult This was my daughter's... Continue Reading →
Tools To Dig Up Your Creative Treasure
In order to dig up our creative treasure, first, we need to find it. But we can't find it if our vision is blocked from seeing it. One of the tools used to remove blocks in our creativity is what Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist's Way, calls ‘morning pages.' Morning Pages (Journaling) The... Continue Reading →
Get Out of the Way of Your Creative Flow
No matter what age or life path you are travelling, whether your creativity is your career, hobby or if it is still a pipe dream, it is never too late in life to start or restart your creative journey. My daughter was working her way through the International Best Selling book titled The Artist's Way... Continue Reading →
Plan To Scribble Time
This article explains my SCRIBBLE time planning method to encourage you to start NOW and start SIMPLE to make a plan this year to share your creativity this year. You don't have to have all your ducks in a row. You don't have to spend money or spend time learning how to use a professional... Continue Reading →
Create, Share, Repeat
Welcome to my new series titled Simply Create To Share, which will consist of weekly articles where I will be sharing the journey of my creativity, which is writing poetry. This year I am venturing into non-fiction writing in which I will be covering topics like what books, songs and creative people motivated and directed... Continue Reading →
A Poetic Kick Into 2022
It is summertime here in Australia, hot and humid in my hometime of Brisbane Queensland. Today I am back sitting at my computer desk ready for an exciting year of sharing my poetic writing at Simply Story Poetry and to start writing articles on this website to encourage other creative people who want to share... Continue Reading →
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