The creative adult is the child who survived… Ursula K. LeGuin Have you lost your creative spark? Or are you afraid you never had one? This self-paced workshop will help you find inspiration and learn to nurture it in the face of this cold, cruel world. We are born to create. Yet our culture does…
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A Gift for Writers
Know a writer struggling to find time to write? Or are you one yourself? Give the gift of my course HOW TO KEEP WRITING WITH A FULL TIME JOB for just half-price! It’s a holiday sale through the end of the year. Just click the coupon below: The course includes: In Praise of the Part-Time…
In Praise of the Part-Time Writer
Now that the mad rush of everything Arcane and Alchemical is in place, it’s time to get back to work. My Udemy course needs some attention! The first students and reviews have come: so far I’m delighted! And the students seem pleased as well. The video above is the introductory lesson that goes over the…
Tarot Workshop Saturday!
Saturday will be magic: it’s always a busy season for witches but you need to take some time to reinforce your skills! Come to the tarot workshop at Universal Pathways (AKA Brigadoon) and learn from three instructors with a lot of years of reading behind them. Peg will tell you all about colour and symbols…
How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job: The Course!
It was a workshop, a book and now — an online course at Udemy! Do you want to write? Or write more? Do you find it difficult to make time to write or to make use of the time when you find it? I can help! And for a limited time, the course is half…
‘We never took our foot off the gas…’
So that’s that. Maybe it’s just the way it’s hitting right now but ‘we never took our foot off the gas’ sounds like they went down burning money all the way, which is a good picture of what happened (Got a problem? Hire a consultant!). A colleague forwarded an email from the president of Russell…
Highsmith @ 100: The Course
The fall semester begins today. My courses are still all online. I have changed the Crime Fiction course to be all Highsmith, because obviously being busy already means nothing. I’m resisting overloading them with biographical information at the start, instead planning to parcel it out as they make their own discoveries, though I gave them…
Magical Fiction Forum: Study Qs
Some study questions for my talk at the Magical Fiction Forum on Leonora Carrington’s The Oval Lady.
From Alba to Albany
By the time this posts, I should be on my way via planes, trains and automobiles (not to mention the bus to the airport in Edinburgh). It’s hard to believe my fantastic year has drawn to a close. Needless to say, I have no wish to leave Scotland and already have my ticket back. My…
Tuesday’s Overlooked A/V: What is Creativity?
Sculpture by David Batchelor at the McManus Rabbit, rabbit! First of May and sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cucu! If you’re out protesting in the streets, I hope you’re enjoying a fine day. My film today is a bit of an odd choice, truly in the spirit of the “overlooked” like no other I’ve…