Category: Random Musings
Kilted Yoga
54 million views! I’ll not confess to how many clicks are mine! Any appetite for a series of Elsa Holland Highlander novellas??
Random Musings… in Bali
I am having a great couple of weeks putting writing first. The best thing about dodgy internet is that all those pressures to stay on-top of your regular responsibilities are forcibly removed. I make it to a cafe every now and again …
Muses… they’re a handful
All the writers I hang out with have a muse of sorts. When writers describe their muse it ranges from a distinct presence to a form of inspiration or internal guidance. Some relay a sense of communication from within and others …
Random Musings
Luckily, I am broken. I have been broken for most of my adult life. They say your life runs in 3 and 7 year cycles, well I had a 7 year cycle from 15 – 22yrs which broke me three times. Breaks …
Random Musings: Elizabeth Gilbert on where inspiration comes from
This is a great video to watch about the creative process. There is a part where she talks about how a poet talks about the poems and how they come to her… just brilliant. There are other elements that underlie the …
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Climbing the Gothic Romance charts
Big Thank you! The Veiled Heart is climbing the Gothic Romance charts on Amazon.com. Today it has reached some pretty good rankings * happy dance* 🙂 Thank you to all of you buying The Veiled Heart or reading it on KDP Select XXOX The …
Marina Abramovic being an artist
The video is called advice to the young, but if you are in anyway creatively driven it’s a good listen. Marina, says something that I’ve heard for writing as well. She says about performance art: “do what scares you.” As …
Ferdinando Scianna & Random Musings
“A photograph is not created by a photographer. What they do(es) is just to open a little window and capture it. The world then writes itself on the film. The act of the photographer is closer to reading than it …
Random Musings
We’re 75% water. But I think we treat ourselves as if we were solid because it looks like and feels like we are solid. No doubt the cultural idea that we come from the earth and return to the earth contributes …
Random Musings
So come on love draw your sword and shoot me to the ground You are mine and I am yours let’s not fuck around. Because you are the only one. Angus and Julia Stone – Draw Your Swords – another …
One Lovely Blog Award
I have been nominated by the mysterious Catherine Winther and the effervescent Nicolette Hugo for the One Lovely Blog Award. I feel deeply supported and appreciated, thank you! It requires that I share Share 7 Lovely Facts about myself (Hmm how does a fiercely, private …
Random Musings
I shared something of this amazing book a couple of weeks back and here is some more for all the Nanorimo’s out there writing at the moment. I have just given key elements from a few paragraphs. During movement into the …
Random Musing
Ok so have you ever read a line or a passage and it really moved you, more than the actual words on the page should have? I don’t know about you but when this happens it usually takes me by surprise. …
Random Musings
Virginia Rodrigues — Uma Histiria De Ifa When I listen to this song, given that I understand nothing of the lyrics, my mind wanders in imaginary directions. I feel the words and music, and imagine what it must be about. Often …
Random Musings
What is it about this dark underbelly of emotion that gets me every time? I love slipping on my gumboots and rugging up to go out into this landscape. I think wandering into the areas of love, romance, heartbreak, loss, hope, …
Ben Howard
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.
You are not alone.
‘We all break in different ways.’ © Elsa Holland
Thoughts on a quote by David Foster Wallace
Hmmm…. This quote has so much appeal. I wondered about that, why it rang so true for me and many others. Personally I think it speaks to the dilemma that in highly emotional situations you never …
Random Musings ~ Tattoos and Identity
TATTOOS I think we can all agree that tattoos have gone viral. There is something very fundamental about choosing your symbols. They are our protectors, our journey markers, our identifiers and our story. Whatever the reason you get a tattoo, ultimately it is a …
Monday musings
Monday musings Just got a book in the mail. How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn. I feel like I want to stalk around it a while before I pick it up and start the read. I can already feel that …