Category Archives: creativity
Writer Idea Synchros
Synchronicities sometimes surface in the oddest ways. A few months ago, I was uploading Lagoon, one of my backlist titles, to smashwords, and received a whole bunch of error messages. So I contacted the woman who had formatted the … Continue reading
Fiction Married to Fiction
from touchdrawing The other night in Rob’s meditation class, he said or did something that prompted me to think of Will Lansa, his Native American character. Will has now been featured in four books – Prophecy Rock, which won … Continue reading
Twins Suns, Revisited
NASA illustration In January of this year, we did a post called Twin Suns. To summarize, it’s about an experience we had before our daughter, Megan, was born. A recap: In the late 1980s, my parents, Rob and I went … Continue reading
Nica, Nika
On Labor Day, our daughter Megan and I visited three local animals shelters in search of border collies, retrievers, or Australian shepherds who needed a home. She has been talking for some time about getting a dog of her own … Continue reading
Synchros as Confirmations
Old Town in Esperanza, Ecuador This post is about the synchronicity of dates – as confirmation. +++ In Esperanza, there’s a character named Wayra – Quechua for wind – who’s a shape shifter, the last of his kind. We meet … Continue reading
The Quake and Global Synchros
On August 23, when we first saw the news about a 5.8 quake in Mineral, Virginia that was felt from Atlanta to Canada, we figured there had to be some synchros involved. Sure enough, the damage in Washington, D.C. was … Continue reading
The Three Crows and Sins of the Sinnin’
This synchro comes from Gypsy. Her stories are usually layered and complex – not just one synchro, but several. This one is particularly strange! Gypsy has been traveling lately and was in Delaware when this one happened. +++ A few … Continue reading
Synchronicity’s GPS: The Shadow Trickster
A Dali tapestry I was working on a chapter about shadow tricksters and creativity and Rob remarked that he didn’t understand how this archetype was related to creativity. I started thinking about that. If we look at our lives as … Continue reading
The Muse
Back in the mid-1970s, I worked as a librarian and Spanish teacher at a juvenile detention facility – that’s a sanitized phrase for a prison. It was supposed to be a place for male juvenile offenders, but we had a … Continue reading
When our Stories Come True
Nancy Pickard wrote this piece for a writers’ blog, the lipstick chronicles. When I read it, I asked if we could repost it. It illustrates how creativity can tap into the future, how writers sometimes come … Continue reading