Are You Fool For Your Creativity? You Better Be!!!

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;

it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Ursula K. Le Guin

Creative Success: Sale on Audios and Ebooks through May 31, 2012

Creative Success: What Does It Mean? How Do We Attain It? No matter how much the creative spirit calls and feeds us, we set impossible standards when it comes to measuring our creative success... and somehow we always fall short.

This 4 session audio series is for writers and anyone looking to deepen her or his understanding of creativity, how creativity works and nourishes you through your artistic pursuits and all of life. Listening to this series will change the way you determine creative success and thereby give you more creative freedom than you dreamed possible!

Each audio runs about an hour and a half. 

Session 1: The Gypsy Dances, includes an e-book, Calling Forth Your Gypsy
Explore how the visceral quality of creativity supports your artistic endeavors and your life's journeys. 

Session 2: Don't Be Afraid to Fail, includes an e-book, Failure, Discipline and the Magic Five
Explores the powerful and freeing aspect of "failure" and why, as creative people, we cannot do without it.

Session 3: 'You are so weird!" he said. "Thank you very much!" she said.
Explores why the most creative aspects of our personality are most threatening to our Inner Critics, as well as the language of creativity and the importance of being part of a creative community. 

Session 4: Talent: What Does It Mean? Why It's Important? Should We Really Care?
How should we evaluate our own "talent"? How much emphasis should we put on talent? And, perhaps most importantly, can we develop our talent or is talent the gift of the gods? 

Purchase the Series   

50% Saving on the The Art of Fiction Ebook Thru April 13

Purchase the Ebook of The Art of Fiction Writing or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Without Really Trying from Smashwords.com and save 50%. Now through April 13, the Ebook is only $4.50. Read on your ebook reader and ipad.

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Expires: April 3, 2012

The Art of Fiction Writing is a course in creating flesh and blood characters from the imagination. Easy-to-use techniques, prompts and exercises along with 5 audio "journeys" that deepen the work and make you feel as if you are in a private coaching session with Emily.





 

A prompt as we near the Winter Solstice

As we go into the dark womb time of the earth, where dying is the promise of new life, I think of this by Goethe:

And so long as you haven’t experienced

This: to die and so to grow,

You are only a troubled guest

On the dark earth.

As I look my life from where I am right now, I feel.....

 

Please feel free to post your writings on the blog!

Who Is the Real Character?

Do you inhabit your characters or do they inhabit you?

What does the question and its answer mean to you?

How does the question make you feel?

Post your answers below!

Fearless Creativity: A Woman's Wisdom Circle

Defining Personal Success: Embracing Fearless Creativity, A TeleSeminar SESSION 3, Sunday May 15 , 7 pm ET

We all have our definitions of what it means to be successful with our creativity. All too often, those definitions are based upon the insatiable appetite of the ego for outer world recognition.

Not that there is anything wrong with outer world success. There isn't! Outer world success can be fun, remunerative and reduce, for a while, one's anxiety about "just how talented am I really?"

Problems arise when we buy the ego story that outer world success is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Even if we chance to dip into that pot, its riches are never enough for the insatiable ego; thus any perception of loss acerbates feelings of failure and sends us on a desperate search to redo the success and, should that fail, to give up.

When we hand over validation of our creativity to others, we become victims of their judgments.

Creativity in its infinite expressions is our most vital experience of the life energy and the adventure of life itself. When we answer creativity's call, we give our self one of the greatest gifts that life can offer.

We give our self... there is tremendous power in those words. For what we give our self, no one can take away, unless we allow them to. The creative part of you will never give that gift away, but the ego will and does.

In Sunday's Fearless Creativity session we will explore the ego's obsessive search for the pot of gold at the end of the illusive rainbow and reclaim and honor the true gifts of creativity, its challenge and sustaining passion and joy.

Each session of this series stands alone and you do not have had to attend other sessions of Fearless Creativity to attend.

REGISTER: Single Session, May 15, 7 pm ET: $30

The session runs at least 2 hours. Recordings of the session will be available to participants. There is no prerequisite to joining the telecircle.