What does your creative self need?

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Hi Friend,

How did your writing week go?
That’s a standard question I’ve asked at the start of most of our Truthful Tuesday sessions.
Sometimes the answer is enthusiastic, but often it’s met with a bit of shame. Not so good. I tried but…
When I dig a bit deeper, there’s usually so much more going on. Their kid got sick, a friend died. In other words, their emotional bandwidth got all used up just coping.
And my question, intended to be encouraging, is actually kind of making it worse.
So I’m going to try out a new question.
What did you give your creative self this week?
Was it rest? Was it a long walk with friends? Was it time alone to just sit and think or grieve? When you need these things then I encourage you to give them to yourself with love, not guilt.

Our last Tuesday session was a journey back into childhood with prompts about treasured objects and things we wanted but couldn't have. We also looked at how filter words such as I remember I saw I felt can sometimes dilute the power of a piece of writing by distancing the action. http://www.publishingcrawl.com/2012/05/21/filter-words/

For our next session we'll be talking about money.

I offer these workshops for free but ask that if they feed you to please pay it forward. For the next three months I’ll be doing these workshops on behalf of the Paul Thomas Scholarship award. I worked with Paul for many years and love that his memory, like his presence, continues to impact the lives of young people.
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/raycam/

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But most of all -- keep writing!!

Truthfully yours!
Sonja

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I'm really looking forward to starting my Writing & Resilience workshop and connecting with people on this journey of becoming self-loving courageous writers. If this sounds like something you need I still have one spot left. It's three Saturday workshops starting January 16th. There are exercises, assignments and check-ins between workshops. Email me if you are interested!

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PS -- My book Red Star Tattoo My Life as a girl revolutionary (Penguin Random House) is available through Amazon and other online book sellers. For book club orders, consider purchasing directly from me! I'll even chat to you about it on Zoom! You can also enjoy it as an audio book through Audible.com.

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