A newsletter for curious, world-changing creatives ready to expand their creative ecosystems and make their dreams come true.
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Creativity moves like the breath
On cultivating joy + rhythm Creativity makes us human. It’s big, powerful magic: It’s the magic that drives life-saving medicine and soul-soothing music. It’s the magic that guides me as I write my books and co-create my ferments with unseen communities that outnumber the people on this planet. Our joy is a catalyst for that…
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A journaling practice for when writing feels vulnerable
Sometimes, it feels scary to share Sometimes, writing is vulnerable. It asks us to take something from deep within ourselves and, if we’re a writer who publishes our work, to put it out in public view. As an academic, I wrote on the defensive for many years: Anticipating people’s possible problems with my work, the…
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Becoming re-enchanted with your writing:
It’s about allowing as much as doing We’ve all fallen in and out of love with our work: Sometimes multiple times over the course of a project. As a creative and human, I love love: the idea of it, the feeling of it, its transformational nature, its changing texture as it grows and evolves. But…
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How do I choose a topic?
In food writing, it’s all about relationships I recently gave a talk on food writing at Forsyth County Public Library, where I was asked to share what food writing is, and how you pick a topic. As I prepared for the talk, I realized that for me, choosing a topic is not simply about picking…
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Embodied nonfiction
Writing about food, environment, and memory from our bodies and our minds This is Roots + Branches, a newsletter on the craft and joy of writing and creativity by Root creator and award-winning author Dr. Julia Skinner. I hope it supports you in your creative journey! Writing Playground begins August 1st: And we’ve got a…
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As a writer, I recognize the power of my words to move and inform readers around a given subject. Why, then, did it take me so many years to embrace the fact that when I write my intentions for the future, that this, too, is a source of power? Through writing my desires, I focus…
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Lately, in client work and in my own practice, I’ve been really emphasizing small daily actions done in tandem with larger, deeper work. Like a river cutting through a landscape (or one of those old Roman roads that’s several feet lower than the ground around it), those small actions gradually reshape things, until you eventually…
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Practices to meet and hold this moment Lately, I’ve been focusing on simple, practical actions. I love deep, extended dives into my own inner world and how I work, but sometimes you just need a quick, simple practice that you can try then move on with your day. in the Mycelia Writers’ Coven and in…
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