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Welcome to the final installment of Write Awake: Inspiration from The Elements, a 4-part conscious writing series. In time and with water, everything changes. ~ Leonardo da Vinci Have you noticed that writing is like the ocean waves? It’s always ebbing and flowing—either a high tide full of joy or a low tide of despair. One day I got angry about pretty much everything. Since the element of Water governs our emotions, I added a few drops of anger-relieving flower essence into

Welcome to the third installment of Write Awake: Inspiration from The Elements, a 4-part conscious writing series. Some people believe that burning a letter is a "surefire" way to release pent-up anger. You write. You light a match. You watch it burn. Your new life begins. While Fire is known to spark a writer's passion, most of us fear it because we know it can be an unpredictable, destructive force. Fire is a wild element that will quickly grow into a raging inferno if we l

Welcome to the second installment of Write Awake: Inspiration from The Elements, a 4-part conscious writing series. When I was a child, I would spend hours on the swings, pumping higher and higher until I believed I could fly. In my imagination, I could touch the stars. I was free — I was Supergirl! Take a deep breath of fresh Air and play the "what if?" game with me: What if you stopped second-guessing yourself and just wrote something? What if you ignored the reviews and al

Welcome to the first installment of Write Awake: Inspiration from The Elements, a 4-part conscious writing series. Writing an ecofiction novel has inspired me to connect with the Earth more often, even if it's from my office window. Just after the spring equinox, I took a much-needed digital break. I opened the windows to let in the fresh air and golden sunshine, laughed at the scampering squirrels outside, and "played the daffodils" on my Native American style flute. To use

“I definitely have rituals, especially around writing. Wake up early and drink Courage tea.” ~ Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic When I first imagin ed a home office, I daydreamed about living in an old English manor with a stained glass window in the library and a circular, iron staircase leading to the second floor bookcases. There was a gold-encrusted mantel clock tick-tocking above a massive stone fireplace. A beautiful red Irish setter slept next to it on a burgun

If you were to disregard all of the file folders, books, and scribbled sticky notes, one of the first things you'd notice about my office is my fondness for the movie, The Wizard of Oz . Along the walls and bookshelves are postcards of Dorothy and The Wicked Witch, a stuffed Scarecrow, and a Cowardly Lion hand puppet. There's also an 18-inch rainbow on my desk. It's really a candleholder, a simple black ornamental bridge with small glass votives of red, orange, yellow, gre