By Milli Thornton. Photos Copyright © Milli Thornton In a post written on the first day of May (How to Dream a Writing Retreat Into Your Life), I announced that I was leaving the next morning for a writing retreat at a B&B two hours down the road in Ashland, Ohio. I said I would…
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Accidental Daydreaming: Listening to Write
By Milli Thornton 4/25/12 – It’s the 10K Day today and I just learned a fun trick about listening to write. I had my writing plans for the day, which included some journaling, a little fiction, several blog posts and some lessons for a new online writing course (Ace Your 10K Day!). Quite a ways…
How to Dream a Writing Retreat Into Your Life
By Milli Thornton I WAS DREAMING of a week-long writing retreat—or even two weeks—because I want to write a new book. Sure, I can write at home. I do that nearly every day. But this is the kind of book that would thrive on a little extra magic. Financially, a one-week retreat was not even…
Don’t Focus on What Doesn’t Matter
By Milli Thornton Whenever a life lesson bonks me over the head, I’m the nerdy kind who will write a pithy reminder on a brightly-colored sticky note and prop it prominently on my desk to remind me. My desk can look kind of hilarious at times. Brian remarked on it the other day, after seeing…
Unleash Your Writing! – online courses + contest for writers
By Milli Thornton I’m excited to announce the launch of my new site, Unleash Your Writing! Unleash Your Writing! will be the hub of my online courses for writers. Here are a few of the courses I’ll be offering at Unleash Your Writing!: Characterosis Zodiac Writer Ace Your 10K Day! Working With an Editor Write…
Pooooooor Mummy!
By Milli Thornton A MEMORY from when my daughter was a toddler (she’s now almost 28) kept calling to me. For some reason, I had scribbled it into the notebook I keep next to me for capturing ideas to blog about. I have several blogs and it was definitely recorded in the section for the…
Fear of Food Blogging
By Milli Thornton I’M USUALLY the one helping other writers with their fear of writing, so it was both poignant and instructional to recently be on the other end of the stick. My chock-full-of-personality friend (and one of my staff writer at Milliver’s Travels), Ann McElfresh, runs a wonderfully warm, yummy and inspiring food blog…
The Golden Gift of Touching One Reader
By Milli Thornton SOMETHING HAPPENED recently to remind me that touching even one reader has a value that cannot be measured. A reader on a recent post, A Week of Taking Action, said she was so inspired by what I’d written she was going to do an “Afternoon of Taking Action” starting right that very…
Spider Totem: Creativity and Weaver of Fate
By Milli Thornton In a post earlier this month, Writing for the End of the World, I decided to use talk of 2012 being the end of the world as a way to explore what I would do if this really was the last year of my life. I said: All I know is that…
Writing for the End of the World
By Milli Thornton THE END OF THE WORLD may be coming as advertised. On the other hand, it could all be a hoax the way Y2K was. Who knows? All I know is that I’m not going to spend 2012 listening to scary predictions. I’m going to spend it on my creative dreams. I decided…
