Let me start by saying that I’m one of the online girlies. I freely admit it. That’s where I feel most myself.
As time goes on I’m porting that feeling to the physical world. but I freely admit that online is home to me.

And I enjoy a nice digital home, where I can express myself, delight my treasured guests and learn to get better at stuff I care about, like writing. So when Professor Kyle’s microstory challenge came across my Spoutible feed, I decided to head to iA Writer and go for it.

Wednesday micro-story challenge: in 300 characters or less, write a story (fiction or non; it could even be a poem) about…conflict resolution.

https://spoutible.com/thread/11925651
Andrew’s shouting brought me, seething to the door. ‘I’m trying to write! What’s going on?!’ He glares at me. ‘Nothing’. Turns away, sits on his bed, hands clenching. Sigh. ‘Look, I’m sorry. What’s going on?’ ‘I don’t know what’s going on.’ ‘Okay. Look, I’ll get us some hot chocolate.’ ‘Okay.’

Oh it was fun to dodge the arrows of imposter syndrome and write this in one long breath! I started to dream about what it would mean to create for a large percentage of my day, every day.

That has always been what living a creative life looked like, to me.

Except, as my wise creative coach mentioned, I actually have been creating! For example, it’s true that I spent most of this day off in bed. But it’s also true that I got up in the evening with this newsletter and graphic idea and…here we are!

That wise coach, btw, is Alexis Rockley, author of Find Your F’ck Yeah.
Our current coaching session is about to come to an end, till I can arrange to do another set of sessions. I will continuously thank her for the concept of microseasons of creativity.

Embracing microseasons gives me permission to celebrate the work I am doing, even if it doesn’t fit my image of constant creative work, every day, before sun up, after sun salutations(which I’m also, alas, not doing).

Yup, this long day of bedtime ended naturally when I got up and started writing this, pulling together the links, creating the image, etc etc.

Rather than months and years of constant daily creativity, I’m going for the microseasons, that can occur even within a day. And I’m guessing that the micro will lead to macro creativity that leaves even my hypercritical nature – impressed. And social media is an ideal tool to play with!

Let me start by saying that I’m one of the online girlies. I freely admit it. That’s where I feel most myself.
As time goes on I’m porting that feeling to the physical world. but I freely admit that online is home to me.

And I enjoy a nice digital home, where I can express myself, delight my treasured guests and learn to get better at stuff I care about, like writing. So when Professor Kyle’s microstory challenge came across my Spoutible feed, I decided to head to iA Writer and go for it.

Wednesday micro-story challenge: in 300 characters or less, write a story (fiction or non; it could even be a poem) about…conflict resolution.

https://spoutible.com/thread/11925651
Andrew’s shouting brought me, seething to the door. ‘I’m trying to write! What’s going on?!’ He glares at me. ‘Nothing’. Turns away, sits on his bed, hands clenching. Sigh. ‘Look, I’m sorry. What’s going on?’ ‘I don’t know what’s going on.’ ‘Okay. Look, I’ll get us some hot chocolate.’ ‘Okay.’

Oh it was fun to dodge the arrows of imposter syndrome and write this in one long breath! I started to dream about what it would mean to create for a large percentage of my day, every day.

That has always been what living a creative life looked like, to me.

Except, as my wise creative coach mentioned, I actually have been creating! For example, it’s true that I spent most of this day off in bed. But it’s also true that I got up in the evening with this newsletter and graphic idea and…here we are!

That wise coach, btw, is Alexis Rockley, author of Find Your F’ck Yeah.
Our current coaching session is about to come to an end, till I can arrange to do another set of sessions. I will continuously thank her for the concept of microseasons of creativity.

Embracing microseasons gives me permission to celebrate the work I am doing, even if it doesn’t fit my image of constant creative work, every day, before sun up, after sun salutations(which I’m also, alas, not doing).

Yup, this long day of bedtime ended naturally when I got up and started writing this, pulling together the links, creating the image, etc etc.

Rather than months and years of constant daily creativity, I’m going for the microseasons, that can occur even within a day. And I’m guessing that the micro will lead to macro creativity that leaves even my hypercritical nature – impressed. And social media is an ideal tool to play with!