A newsletter for curious, world-changing creatives ready to expand their creative ecosystems and make their dreams come true.
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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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How Does a Star Eat? Reflections on Space + Ways of Tasting from Writing Playground
A sample writing prompt, plus my response, for your own playful writing practice. I love designing spaces that are part hands-on and part reflective, or part theory and part practice. Writing Playground is a good example of this: Part generative writing time, then part reflection and skill-building, so you can expand the scope of your…
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What does "good enough" even mean?
Maybe it’s time to stop giving shame a place at your table (or your writing desk) 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! Ah, shame. There are a…
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I spent years unweaving this one particular puzzle: I love manifestation, and believe there’s power in releasing control over a specific outcome. I believe there’s a universe, and various energies flowing through that universe, that shape and inform our lives and who we can collaborate with to build things beyond our wildest imaginings. But I…
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I’ve been playing around with something new after some requests for ongoing Reiki/energy work services. Monthly remote energy work + intuitive guidance sessions for creative people who are building a body of work (your art, your business, or something else). No appointment needed, no calendar wrangling required. It’s for busy creative people who want additional…
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We’re all storytellers. In the ways you think, but also in ways you may not realize. As a creative, you’re already familiar with the ways you shape ideas into being, using whatever medium crafted into whatever form, whether it’s a book, a business, a sculpture, or a song. But there’s another layer of storytelling beneath…
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