Creative Living – Kathy Boles-Turner

To Fellow Readers of Joy and Grief and All the Signs That Point Elsewhere

Dearest moonlit eyes, friends to the inventors of poetry and new magic. Dearest fellow readers of joy and grief and all the signs that point elsewhere—lost romantics, pretty little cynics. I have a story to tell. I have a million stories, but this one is about a day when the sky hung low. The sun […]

by Kathy Boles-Turner

You Need This

Watch “Salon@615-Elizabeth Gilbert” Elizabeth Gilbert and Ann Patchett

by Kathy Boles-Turner

Collaboration: Fairy Dust & Hard Labor

Originally posted on Brigit's Flame Writing Community:
Just as RicoChey is suggesting a mob of us writers collaborate, I begin reading a book about creative collaboration. In Big Magic, Liz Gilbert puts forth her experiences with inspiration — that thing of mysterious quality and substance, like fairy dust — and putting herself to work at the…

by Kathy Boles-Turner

Big Magic:Let’s Discuss Creative Living Beyond Fear

Originally posted on Brigit's Flame Writing Community:
I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth Gilbert’s since listening to her narration of Eat Pray Love in the winter of 2012. Gilbert’s narrative talent is divine on paper; her spoken word is magnificent. That narrative talent is what got me through The Signature of All Things —…