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 inspirationIn October, as you know, I went to the WIN conference in Rome. I love this event so much that I have attended nine times in the fourteen years it has been going. I wrote about this year’s experience for Andrea over at ExpatWomen, and it was published yesterday. To find out what WIN meant to us all this year, please take a look at my article. And if you want to see more evidence of what goes on then you need to see my posts about Where Words Meet Art and The Importance of Art [...]  about meAt this year’s wonderful WIN conference I had the pleasure of talking to Fran O’Hara of Scarlet Design for quite some time about the art of what she calls Visual Minutes. More than a mindmap, these are a graphic representation of what is said in a meeting, workshop or keynote session. I had met Charleen Michel many times at WIN but had not realised that she was now assisting Fran and had discovered she had quite a knack for [...] inspirationThree reasons why writing is scary Because we dream of being ‘Larkin’ or ‘Dickens’ or ‘Austin’ and yet we can never truly be someone else, so our work can never match up. booksAn accompanying partner, she has lived in Africa for almost 20 years and is currently in Rwanda. Two years ago she decided to write a book based on her the workshops she creates to help expat partners find happiness and their identity while overseas. Being Belgian she was determined to produce the book in French and in English. [...] inspirationMy teenage son ordered me to paint for the first time in 13 years while he cooked supper and banished me from the [...] inspirationDaniella has created an acronym that spells HEART and that will, I know, help and inspire any artist to let go and create work from the creative right side of their brain, not the logical [...] booksAuthor to author - meet Natalie Tollenaere, author of The Art of Possibilities & L'Art des PossiblesSummertime Publishing expat author, Natalie Tollenaere, talks about her books simultaneously published in French and [...] inspirationAs a writer, is it worth forcing the words to come if they simply don’t want to flow? No. I don’t think so. Does suffering make you a better writer, then? No, I don’t think so. Not if you don’t enjoy anything about the process at [...] inspirationWhen I wrote the poem, it came about as a result of a teambuilding art workshop that I attended. In the workshop we took Matisse’s painting, La Danse, and each had to paint a portion of the canvas. Art inspired my poem. My poem inspired a dance and so it [...] inspirationwriters should read other books in their genre. Five reasons why they must be inspired to copycat those who went [...] |
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