Won’t You Celebrate with Me

won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me… →

Road to WriMo 2017: Plot

There has been a slight change in our programming schedule for the month. Have no fear, the Storytime post that was to be on October 5th has been delayed only for a short time and will now appear on November 3rd. Instead, to help prepare those of you who are about to embark on NaNoWriMo, I will be posting a series of blogs I have… →

Road to WriMo 2017: Character

There has been a slight change in our programming schedule for the month. Have no fear, the Storytime post that was to be on October 5th has been delayed only for a short time and will now appear on November 3rd. Instead, to help prepare those of you who are about to embark on NaNoWriMo, I will be posting a series of blogs I have… →

Road to WriMo 2017: Setting

There has been a slight change in our programming schedule for the month. Have no fear, the Storytime post that was to be on October 5th has been delayed only for a short time and will now appear on November 3rd. Instead, to help prepare those of you who are about to embark on NaNoWriMo, I will be posting a series of blogs I have… →

Road to WriMo 2017: The Enchantment of Words

There has been a slight change in our programming schedule for the month. Have no fear, the Storytime post that was to be today has been delayed only for a short time and will appear on November 3rd. Instead, to help prepare those of you who are about to embark on NaNoWriMo, I will be posting a series of blogs I have previously published about… →

The Interweave: Passion

You may have noticed by now the three components of our dreams seem to have a symbiotic relationship with one another. Our ideas cannot be brought to fruition without our effort and our effort is baseless without a solid idea. Both of these, the idea and the effort, are driven by our passions. Just as our ideas come from within us, our passion is the… →

The Interweave: Effort

We all know that one person. He’s almost finished writing that screenplay, ten years later. She’s got all those great ideas for a new business, until next week when a new one catches her eye. Our ideas are great, they can be downright amazing at times, but they won’t go anywhere unless the dreamer is willing to put in a bit of elbow grease. (That… →

The Interweave: Ideas

I stated last week that the Loop can be started and begin again at any time. At its base, the Creative Loop is a fluid cycle of ideas, effort, and passion. Each stage lends itself to another and each one can spur the others into action, all of them are interwoven together to enable and support the others. Each stage of the Loop contains the… →

The Creative Loop – An Overview

What are our dreams? Where do they come from? These are questions that most of us will ask at some point in our lives. Here at the DreamAnvil we believe that the answer is that our dreams are a continuous wheel. A circle of creativity that only ends when the dreamer stops dreaming. It is our logo, it is my own creative process and I… →

Towards Tomorrow

The white markers tick past, a blurry line streaking towards my next destination. I am tired. I am a little hungry. I am nervous about where the road is taking me. Is there a turn coming up? I want to get out of this little box on wheels, stand up and stretch my hands towards the sky. Instead I take another sip of water, turn… →