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1 Quick Tip for Creative Inspiration

Welcome to Tuesday Truths! If you’re new to Spunky Misfit Girl, welcome. Find sign up box below. And, as always, much love to my super supporters and amazing audience. Hope you enjoy my video-self with her dorky over-enthusiasm and please only make fun of me as much as is absolutely necessary. Enjoy!

March 9, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement.

Let Me Read You a Bedtime Story: Double Dutch

So all week this week on the blog I’m doing something completely crazy; I’m taking my own advice and sharing some of my fiction. This is a short story I wrote in my 20s. Please leave me some nice comments if you like it. Please keep your trap shut if you don’t … 😉 Just kidding.…

March 1, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement, Writing & Creating.

Giveaway! Handmade Coptic-Bound Book

I made this beautiful, hand bound coptic book just for one of you …   With endpapers that came from a good book … This is a handmade piece, crafted lovingly and entirely by me. The pages are blank. It lays flat for easy writing, drawing, painting, mixed media collaging, etc. Do something amazing with it and…

February 18, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement.

7 Things Your Inner Critic Needs to Hear You Say

When I mentioned this blog post title to a very good friend, he said, “Um, shut up?” It’s a start, but I’ve learned over the past eleven months or so that there are more specific things I tell it that help me shut it up, better and faster. I hope you find them useful, too.…

February 11, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement.

Why You Don’t Need 1 Million Fans

Welcome to Tuesday Truths! If you’re new to Spunky Misfit Girl, welcome. Find sign up box below. And, as always, much love to my super supporters and amazing audience. Hope you enjoy my video-self with her dorky over-enthusiasm and please don’t make fun of me more than is absolutely necessary. Enjoy! 1,000 True Fans by…

February 9, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement, Writing & Creating.

Do This Now If You’re Still Hoping to Get “The Call”

Welcome to Tuesday Truths! If you’re new to Spunky Misfit Girl, welcome. Find sign up box below. And, as always, much love to my super supporters and amazing audience. Hope you enjoy my video-self with her dorky over-enthusiasm and please don’t make fun of me more than is absolutely necessary. Enjoy!  

February 2, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement.

The Importance of Designing a Life of Focus

Have you ever reduced your life to one project that meant the world to you? That spoke to your heart, that you were fully dedicated to finishing and doing well? That you tuned in to your deepest sense of discipline for? If you have, try to remember what that felt like. (If you haven’t, envision…

January 28, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement, Writing & Creating.

1 Quick Way to Have More Confidence

Welcome to Tuesday Truths! If you’re new to Spunky Misfit Girl, welcome. Find sign up box below. And, as always, much love to my super supporters and amazing audience. Hope you enjoy my video-self with her dorky over-enthusiasm and please don’t make fun of me more than is absolutely necessary. Enjoy!  

January 26, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement, Social Relationships.

You Don’t Have to Suffer to Make Art

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic (which I wrote about here), asks aspiring young writers whether their writing loves them. According to her, they generally look at her like she’s crazy — quite rightly, I think. But she uses this question to open up a different point, one that I think is valid. Via Big Magic…

January 21, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement.

#1 Thing You Can Do For Yourself Creatively

  Welcome to Tuesday Truths! If you’re new to Spunky Misfit Girl, welcome. Find sign up box below! And, as always, much love to my super supporters and amazing audience. Hope you enjoy my video-self with her dorky over-enthusiasm and don’t make fun of me more than is absolutely necessary.

January 19, 2016 in Inspiration & Self-Improvement, Writing & Creating.

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