On Slow Traveling, Creative Calling, and Simple Living
Hey, Lovelies! Happy #2020! The first thing I do on the 1st of January (apart from finishing left-over food from our NY dinner celebration) is to set up my bullet journal (Bujo) for the year! If you’re not familiar with bullet journaling, I would suggest you watch this video, or
I started this morning by sipping a cup of coffee over my Kindle, reading The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry. The book plays around with the idea of these 3 main qualities people in creative businesses need to have to establish a rhythm that supports their creative process. Basically, to
In We Wanted to Be Writers, John Irving said that he wrote a novel by writing the last line first. “I work my way backward from the end of the novel,” he says, “which is the first thing I know, to what the first chapter should be. By the time I write
In my writing workshops (either fiction or non-fiction), I always highlight the importance of writing practice to the participants–and encourage them to make a reasonable schedule they can follow to do this practice. I don’t require them to do their writing practice every day, but there is supposed to be
Sipping coffee is our way to fall in love with the bittersweet. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hanny | Writer | Amsterdam (@beradadisini) on Mar 3, 2016 at 12:44am PST It always begins with a closed door. And from what it allows us to glimpse upon,
When meditating feels hard, I watch a candle or an incense burns in silence. I fix my gaze onto the flame, the glowing dot; following each movement and noticing each moment of changes; no matter how minuscule: that second when the candle melt, when something flickers, when the ashes fall.
I used to think that ‘self-care’ means taking the time to do the things that will make you feel good. At the time, the first few things that crossed my mind when I heard about self-care weren’t far from instant gratification: treating yourself to a shopping spree, taking a break
Llia (Aulia) Halimatussadiah is a writer of 30 books, from novels to how-to books. She is also the co-founder of NulisBuku.com, an online self-publishing platform, and Storial.co, a social storytelling platform that allows writers to do direct publishing digitally. In the past 3 years, she’s been writing biographies of successful
I published this essay on this blog a few years ago. Today, I am republishing the revised version of this essay, edited by Jen Campbell. — Whenever it’s raining outside, my mind always goes to a bowl of instant noodles. A steaming plate of comfort topped with egg and fried