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Welcome to Orna Ross’s blog. Enjoy new stories and poems alongside creative advice and inspiration.
MONDAYS: Monday Motivator and upcoming theme of the week. You’re invited to join Orna, in her closed Facebook groups, to map your creative intentions and for daily Creative Flow Practice here.
TUESDAYS: A report on Orna’s latest create date or something she’s currently writing about.
WEDNESDAYS: What’s happening over at ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors.
THURSDAYS: News about Orna’s podcasts.
FRIDAYS: Are devoted to Orna’s fiction. Read the latest novel as it unfolds.
SATURDAYS: A look back at the week’s creative accomplishments and the flow practice theme of the week. Share yours with Orna’s group here.
SUNDAY: Inspirational poetry day
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Here’s an advance peek at some of the broadcasts (in Facebook live video and audio podcast) coming soon from the Alliance of Independent Author’s #AskALLi.
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This week’s highlights: Joanna Penn and I discuss, How To License Your Publishing Rights; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Freddie P. Peters who pens financial crime thrillers and, as ever, Dan Holloway has all the latest self-publishing news from the Alliance of Independent Authors blog roundup 2019 Week 42.
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Our theme for creative flow practice this week is: Inner Elder, Inner Child. Join us for morning meditation and f-r-e-e-writing practice here.
Are you looking forward to the creative week ahead? Below I map my creative intentions for my author business for this week (Week 41 Q3 2019), under the hats a creative entrepreneur must wear: maker, manager, marketer. Have you decided on your intentions for this week yet? Join us here to map your creative week.
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My new inspirational poetry book, Allowing Now, launches on the 25th of October and it is a selection of mindfulness poetry.
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This week, in our Creative Flow Practice Group, we’ve been exploring Three Techniques to Help You Cultivate Creative Flexibility. You can join us for online flow practice (Inspiration Meditation and F-R-E-E-Writing) here.
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Friday is Fiction day on the blog. Here is the prologue to In The Hour: The Third Book in the Irish Trilogy.
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This week’s highlights: Dalma Szentpály and I discuss, How to Self-Publish Poetry Chapbooks; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Mari Howard who writes about the gray areas where science and religion meet and, as ever, Dan Holloway has all the latest self-publishing news from the Alliance of Independent Authors blog roundup 2019 Week 41.
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Our theme for creative flow practice this week is: Creative Flexibility. Join us for morning meditation and f-r-e-e-writing practice here….
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This post is about October’s exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: The Rings of Our Being
My friends Clarisse and Bobby are getting married soon and they asked me to write a poem for the wedding, a translation of one of the old Irish love poems.
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This week, in our Creative Flow Practice Group, we’ve been exploring The Power of Creative Praise. You can join us for online flow practice (Inspiration Meditation and F-R-E-E-Writing) here.
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