Alexandra Isobel's Blog, page 12
April 23, 2016
DESIGN a Creative Weekend
Sometimes we have to get out and chase our inspirational muse, and sometimes we need to retreat into a creative cave to collect our thoughts and germinate ideas before our minds can be free to hit a new creative stride.
DESIGN YOURSELF A CREATIVE WEEKEND
Choose a time when you can either go away to retreat, or staycation and see your city from a new perspective.
Rediscover some hidden places and enjoy them wrapped in your own little world.
Spend some time alone and contemplate without daily distractions.
Go someplace new. Drink coffee in a hidden place. Listen to people talk and hear their stories.
Indulge in some things that are all about you.
Do not leave leave without a journal and pencil.
Happy trails . . . .
Filed under: CrEaTiVe SPACES, Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: creative, CrEaTiVe SPACES, inspiration, inspire, reading, writing inspiration
April 19, 2016
FUN ‘n’SEXY SPRINGTIME READ
Hot special operations soldiers on a mission. The fun women who lead them on a chase.
Breathless . . .
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Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: intimacy, love scene, military, reading, Romance, tantric sex, writing inspiration
March 23, 2016
MIXED MEDIA DAYDREAMS
FIVE MINUTES WITH: Natalie Deschamps –Ottawa mixed media artist and creator of day dreamy art.
We stopped to chat with Natalie about her totally dream like mixed media creations, she make for family and friends.
Here’s what she had to say about art and creativity . . . .
I do my best creative work in front of my window.
I’m inspired by children and chase my creative muse out in nature.
I love the works of Cara Elizabeth. She inspires me.
Being creative makes me happy.
Natalie is also a home child care giver. I think her work shows the true whimsy of children and early childhood.
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Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS
March 6, 2016
What Creative Process!?
You mean that slow moving train of thought I keep losing?
That process of leading up to that dreaded midpoint where everything is free flowing and the ideas are coming together to that beautiful peak . . .that point of heightened anticipation until . .
It’s all just kind of left in suspended animation?
That process!?
Just keep writing. Write right through it. Write out every possible scenario until you find the one that clicks.
I tend to be a bit of a list junkie and will list all of my ideas, no matter how ridiculous, improbable or off the beaten track in long hand.
The process of writing things out by hand is quite cathartic and allows me to think as I write.
Most of the time those long hand ideas develop into the most intriguing ideas and make the story interesting again.
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: creative, creative process, inspiration, writer's block, writing inspiration
February 12, 2016
Excuse me, can I take your idea?
W
ho was it that said . . .“Good artist copy, great artists steal . . . or . . . Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
Whoever they were, the ideas were two sides of the same coin.
Take a story and recreate it with your own ideas.
Isn’t this the true essence of storytelling?
There is only a handful of original stories in the world? Everything else is simply retelling?
Fan fiction?
There are just some stories I never tire or hearing, movies that never get old, and books I read again and again. And again . . .
They inspire me and jump start my creativity until I can’t help stopping to daydream about all of the what if moment, maybe if scenes, and the what I imagine happens after the author’s The End.
These authors and stories never fail to inspire me. These movies I can watch again and again.
Reason why I keep them on my desk top. Inspiration on those rainy days.
Which stories inspire your creativity? Where do you go to refill your creative well?
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: creative, inspiration, keepers, muse
February 6, 2016
OUT TO CHASE SOME INSPIRATION
It’s the weekend. Time to go in search of that ever elusive inspiration muse.
Out to the Blackbird Cafe in the Ottawa Valley. Snowy country roads inspire the imagination.
Now this is comfortable for some relaxed coffee and hearty home cooked eats.
Time to venture outside to chase that scene muse…
Hmm . . perfect scenes all around . . . and just outside the door!
Definitely renewed and ready to head home to write. Bye Bye Blackbird . . . .
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS
January 24, 2016
Creative Spaces: tea for inspiration
Afternoon tea reservations for two . . . at the Nectar Tea Shoppe in west end Ottawa.
When you need to replenish the well with a friend. An afternoon tea menu is a good place to start.
A perfect place setting on top of an organic tea display. The scent is heavenly and intriguing.
Frozen melon and kiwi sorbet to start.
Along with a soup sipper … which I drank before I could snap a photo. It was the most delicious borscht.
Scones, sandwiches and sweet treats to round things out.
Not too much and just enough . . .
And of course perfectly timed tea, any kind from all over the world, is served.
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: creative spaces, inspiration, Romance, tea, tea shoppe
January 17, 2016
THE CREATIVE ZONE
“Creativity is about generating new ideas and making connections between thoughts until something new appears . . .” Tricia Kassotis
It’s all about getting into the creative zone . . . to pull out the story that’s germinating in our heads.
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.” E.B. White
“The desk in the room, near the bed, with a good light . . . preferably at home, but if you have no home, make a home out of your hotel room or motel room or pad . . .” Jack Kerouac
“I like the slowness of writing by hand.” Susan Sontag
“A writer is working when he is staring out of a window.”
Burton Rascoe
“I’m able to work fairly well among ordinary distractions. My house has a living room that is at the core of everything that goes on . . .I often use it as a room to write in, despite the carnival that is going on all around me.” E.B. White
“The space is clear, the house is quiet. A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.” Don DeLillo
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: #creativespaces, #myspaces, creative, inspiration, writing
December 23, 2015
FOUND: An Inspired Writing Place
Strolling down Bank Street in Ottawa.
There is a little book shop. The 
Black Squirrel Books and Cafe
It it truly Marvelous.
Coffee and tea and other delightful drinks – both hot and cold and fussy if you like your drinks that way.
The Black Squirrel Books and Cafe.
Kusmi tea. Equator and Cloud Forest Coffee.
It has some great bookish patrons.
AND is a quiet inspiring place to read and write.
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS Tagged: bookstore, cafe, inspiration, reading, writing place
November 1, 2015
NaNo Wrimo MASHUP
At heart of NaNoWriMo is learning the discipline to write regularly and draft to completion.
This year I plan to get the three partial drafts I have been kicking around all year done. DONE!!
Write – Draft – Complete . . . REPEAT!
And of course, don’t judge, I have plenty of goal inspiration at hand!
Filed under: Writing INSPIRATIONS
