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How Many Notebooks Does a Multi-Passionate Artist Need?

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Besides writing, I paint and draw. I do collage, and I knit. My creative energy used to fluctuate like roller coasters. As time went by, I regularly reassessed the causes of those unplanned bouts of fatigue. Here, you will read about how my note-taking system has changed and what I needed to change in my life habits in order to calm the roller-coasters. Food-Mind-Body Connection and Artistic Practice I learned that if I eat enough good-quality food, I feel better, my muscles and my brain respond better, and most important of all, I sleep well. Then I can exercise, and I also have more energy for all these projects linked to my multiple interests. Fueling my body properly helps me stay active, productive, creative, happy and maintain practices with purpose and consistency, rested and oxygenated. In the end, I need to fuel my body correctly to create more and become an artist entrepreneur. To become the latter, I need to grow a body of work through regular artistic practice. In my cas...
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I.W.S.G.- My Answer to October's Question

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The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. Go read the post of our awesome co-hosts  here  and here . October 1st question:  What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why? My favorite text at the moment is the first story I wrote with several elements of a "real" story like in books: characters with different personalities, a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's a short story. I'm happy because it's the first thing I wrote and finished. But I won't publish it because it's too... bad. Yet, I really love it a lot. From that story flowed other texts and other stories that I really liked. One of them is a thriller, another short story that I'd like to rewrite someday. I see that I'm a better storyteller than I was back then, and...
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Ethics and Publishing

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The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. Go read the post of our awesome co-hosts  here  and here . August 6 question:  What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry? To tell the truth, I always feel bad commenting on subjects I do not know deeply. Do I find unethical material online? Yes, all this copying of other people's works, like plagiarism, bothers me.  The Book Edition World: a Topic I Know Little About I know very little about the practices in the publishing world. If we compare independent authors and those who work with an agent and a publishing house, there are differences, at least in my corner of the world. Here, bookstores and libraries exclude independent authors from distribution. Only authors published by a “real” publishing house may be...
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IWSG - try to write in other genres

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The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. The awesome co-hosts' posts July 2 can be found here  and here . July 2 question: Is there a genre you haven't tried writing in yet that you really want to try? If so, do you plan on trying it? I write horror and fantasy. I would like to add romance to those stories. I still feel like a beginner in the way I develop myself in writing. Yes, I want to mix horror or fantasy with a brief romance. I enjoy more reading stories when there is a tiny romance plot added. I love reading about relationships, so romance is the way. Writing romance is difficult for some people. You have to master the art to keep readers interested through sustained emotional tension between beautiful characters! In fact, I wished I could transfer this in my writing, to mak...
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Young Adult Defining Reads

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What were some books that impacted you as a child or young adult? The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. The awesome co-hosts for the June 4 posts can be found here . I know: I’m late. Here is my take on June's discussion.  Out of the books I had to read in highschool (one per year, at most) and college, Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and Agaguk  opened my mind to other philosophies and ways of life.  Later, as I entered the working life at 20 years old, I discovered I could travel through books while  facing a new challenge for me:  communicating in English, and with unknown (for me) cultures at work. Through Romain Gary/Émile Ajar's Life Before Us and Amitav Gosh's The Circle of Reason , I found out my trips will always involve getting to know a community and its pe...
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Coping With My Biggest Fears

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Some common fears writers share are rejection, failure, success, and lack of talent or ability.  What are your greatest fears as a writer? How do you manage them? I am posting this one one month later than expected. Better late than never, as we say. The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. The awesome co-hosts for the May 7 posting of the IWSG were:  Feather Stone,   Janet Alcorn,   Rebecca Douglass, Jemima Pett,   and  Pat Garcia Judgement Comparing my work to others. In fact, I am always afraid of the others' judgment, and afraid to feel demolished by a comment. I was sure I was not an artist, although I was crafting, writing, creating and making stuff... I used to see every creation as less nice and cute than the artists in my family. I thought I  could...
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On Writing Envy and Admiration - and a To-do List!

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Sometimes, reading a book brings the strangest questions about ourselves and adds to our life plan. Last night, I started reading a book from  Michel Tremblay . I think I will like this tale-like autobiography. My daughter loves this author and I get it. I already like the person we meet on TV. You see, my first problem is this: I have difficulty accomplishing the goals I set for myself. For example, I say to myself I will complete a chapter of my story by this date: I don’t. I will write three times per week in my story. My mind will wrestle with the said plan and will refuse doing it. These days - I should say since I’m born - I’m learning self-discipline. I love learning stuff on my own, but this one is a form of “learning something” that is not at all natural in me. Not at all, and this bothers me. So much. Learning this now is crucial for a better retirement and a future career as an artist. And here is my other problem. source I need also to create better descriptio...
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