It’s easier than you think to tap into your originality.

“An original artist is one who encounters the origin of his/her work within their individual experience of the imagination. It is this authentic experience that affords their work the conviction of absolute authority- or in other words, it’s originality.”  From the Way To Write, by John Fairfax & John Moat.

Here’s your writing tip of the week for May 7

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” —Henry Ward Beecher
I listened to an artist sharing her process of creating a painting. It sounded so familiar. Whenever you create something that starts from your inspiration, whether it be with words, a paintbrush, a camera, you give a part of yourself that is fresh and original. Let the paintbrush of your soul give way to your expression.

“What if the Problem’s Not the Problem???,” my latest creation, is now on Amazon as well as Kindle. If you don’t find it in your local bookstore or library, please ask them to order it. If you go straight to my website http://jasmyneconsulting.com you’ll find an amazon link to the book’s page.

June 2nd – Temple of Peace, 575 Haiku Rd, Haiku from 2-4:00 p.m. Book Signing and discussion

July 14th – Barnes and Noble, 325 Keawe #101 Lahaina, – Book Siging and mini workshop
“What if the Problem’s Not the Problem???,” the title of Jasmyne Boswell’s newly published book, is also a worthy inquiry and practice for approaching all the so-called inconvenience and interruptions into the way we think life should be happening. Jasmyne suggests that in an ideal world, where ego-centric behaviors don’t exist, this question is irrelevant. But in the highly competitive, fast-paced world we live in, this question is a wake-up call. It allows us to evaluate the extent to which we are influenced by the past or the future, creating distractive thinking that keeps us from being in the present moment where our true wisdom and aliveness abides. Her book is based on four practices that changed her life, giving her peace of mind regardless of the circumstances life presents.

On Saturday, June 2^nd Jasmyne will hold a book signing at the Temple of Peaxe. She will give a short reading from her book and answer questions about the content and the process of writing a book for publication.

On July 14^th Jasmyne will share and engage us in experiential exercises for a greater understanding of the practicality and wisdom in “What if the Problem’s Not the Problem???.”

Here’s your writing tip of the week for April 30th.

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get
to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say.
~Sharon O’Brien
This is what happens to a lot of the students I work with. This could
be you!
“What if the Problem’s Not the Problem???” is now on Amazon as well as
Kindle. If you don’t find it in your local bookstore or library, please
ask them to order it. If you go straight to my website
http://jasmyneconsulting.com you’ll find an amazon link to the book’s
page.

Aloha,

Jasmyne

Writing tip of the week – April 23
“The writer who cares more about words than about story – characters, action, setting, atmosphere – is unlikely to create a vivid and continuous dream; he gets in his own way too much; in his poetic drunkenness, he can’t tell the cart – and its cargo – from the horse.” John Gardner

“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”
Neil Gaiman

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Miguel de Cervantes

If you can talk, you can write. Will a bit of skill, most of us can write well. Try it! If you find you like it, you’ve found a best friend for life.

Enjoy!

Aloha Writers -

“Anytime you start a sentence with I am, you are creating what you are and what you want to be. So, if you sometimes say, “I am bad at this, I am ugly, I am stupid,” these words take you farther and farther away from the part of you that is God. When you choose to say, “I am happy, I am kind, I am perfect,” you help the light of God inside you to grow and shine.” Wayne Dyer

As it pertains to writing, if you say I can write, you give yourself the confidence to allow the best writer in you to emerge.
Building on last week’s quote about listening beyond your inner critic,  be your biggest supporter by encouraging your best.

Enjoy!