Have you decided to start blogging? That's wonderful news! People choose to blog and write for all sorts of reasons. No matter your reason, it’s important to choose a blogging niche that suits your passions. Writing in any niche can be more challenging when you don’t like what you’re doing. But when you love what you’re doing, you wake up in the mornings with the energy and the enthusiasm to get to creative work. Take a few minutes and consider which niches might fit with your creativity and ... Read the Post
How to Choose a Blogging Niche That Sparks Your Passion
5 Ways to Keep Focused on Your Own Creative Projects
Are you feeling stuck in your personal creative process? Perhaps you feel as though you have been consuming loads of information, and before you know it, time has slipped by and you didn't complete what you wanted to. We've all been there, especially in this 'information age'. Information is good because it provides stimulus that your brain can process and integrate with existing information in the memory. However, consuming too much information can overload your creative brain and keep it from ... Read the Post
Find Your People
Moving to a new city as a writer can be very isolating. In fact, moving to any foreign city is a struggle in and of itself—the language is cryptic, the culture is unfamiliar, your closest friends are an ocean away… You get it. But when you’re nestling into a new part of the world and your bread and butter is writing, a solitary process, it can be that much more difficult. Even as introvert, it can get lonely. That is, if you don’t have any source of joy outside of your work. This struggle, ... Read the Post
Using Writing To Heal Depression
Depression is a difficult problem that often goes undetected in the sufferer. It can have a paralyzing effect, wrapping the depressed person in a fog of darkness that prevents him or her from thinking clearly and getting help. There are also many circumstances in which the individual experiencing the depression can be unaware of it, or of its intensity and impact upon their lives. An example of this can be postpartum depression - the sheer exhaustion of taking care of a newborn and keeping up ... Read the Post