Creativity takes courage. A gothic word.

French painter Henri Matisse set it straight for us when he said “Creativity takes courage”. To be artistic because you have a ‘talent’ is never as easy as the world seems to think it is. Matisse’ words resonate with me deeply this week as I receive critique on the query letter I have written for…

The flames who got burnt

This is one for those with a fire in their hearts. For the creative, the romantic, the outcast, and the passionate. This is for the keys who do not fit. For those who, according to CS Lewis, “find in themselves a desire this world cannot satisfy…”   The flames who got burnt. JR Manawa. That…

Me, the storyteller.

A story to tell, a tale to weave, words are there to carve and twist until they do what you want. Until that moment where you close your eyes and see the tapestry I am weaving in vivid colour and striking pain, I have not succeeded. Not until that moment where you see the mountains…