The Learning Dreamer

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...

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...