by Susan Gabriel | Oct 28, 2017 | Nurturing Creativity, To Inspire
Dear Ones, The pursuit of anything meaningful in our lives requires persistence, especially our creative endeavors. I have been writing for 22 years and have published several novels, three of them bestsellers on Amazon and Nook. A large part of my success as a writer...
by Susan Gabriel | Jan 31, 2017 | To Inspire
In our modern world, it is easy to feel anxious with the constant barrage of news and information that saturates our days. Many of us are discovering the need to calm ourselves and take a break from the seemingly unending things to worry about. With this in mind,...
by Susan Gabriel | Jun 13, 2016 | To Inspire
Francine Christophe is an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and the story she tells in the documentary film, HUMAN, is one that proves without a doubt the powerful nature of stories. And perhaps most especially the stories that come from our own personal experience. This...
by Susan Gabriel | May 5, 2016 | To Inspire, Writers and writing
Would you like to know the secret to writing a novel? I’ve written over a dozen of them so far, so this is a secret I know well. Except it’s not really a secret. Actually, it’s something pretty simple when you think about it. For Lily’s Song....
by Susan Gabriel | Mar 16, 2016 | Nurturing Creativity, To Inspire
Dear Ones, I thought you’d enjoy this this delightful list by Debbie Millman about overcoming creative block. We’re all creative in one way or another and it’s super easy these days to get distracted and put our creativity last on our to-do list....
by Susan Gabriel | Dec 14, 2015 | Artists, To Inspire
In this short excerpt from the essay entitled The Crossroads of Should and Must, artist and writer Elle Luna talks honestly about her struggle to have a creative life. She discovered her art was one of those things she MUST do, as opposed to all the shoulds that kept...