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SANDY ACKERS
ABOUT ME
I'm a professional writer, a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach and a lifelong creative adventurer. My explorations include forays into visual journaling, jewelry making, singing in the car, paper art, absurdist fiction, and coloring my life with a variety of creative pursuits.
As a writer, I've crafted everything from screenplay synopses and movie summaries to book jacket copy, web content and legal abstracts. I have published short fiction and poetry, and am currently writing a book on creativity.
I work with individuals and groups to help them unleash their creativity. This includes dealing with personal creative issues and/or getting over blocks, a general program to make creativity a regular part of life, a more specific focus on a particular project, or whatever else is needed. For more information, see my website.
I blog about creativity and writing at Strangling My Muse: Struggling to Live a Creative Life in a Stressful World.
Download my free Creative Bursts workbook full of fun, 15-minute play breaks to help get your creativity flowing here: http://wp.me/pwZs5-1sN
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Don't Let Perfectionism Strangle Your Muse
Posted on October 7, 2009 at 11:46am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I've written several posts about perfectionism on my blog lately, and have been getting so much feedback from writers struggling with the issue, I thought they might be helpful to some of my fellow She Writes members.
Here's a quote from today's post: "An editor once told me my submission to his literary journal was the silliest story he’d ever read. Ouch! My own Inner Perfectionist couldn’t have dismissed my efforts with more derision. But I didn’t let his comments stop me. Okay, I… Continue
Here's a quote from today's post: "An editor once told me my submission to his literary journal was the silliest story he’d ever read. Ouch! My own Inner Perfectionist couldn’t have dismissed my efforts with more derision. But I didn’t let his comments stop me. Okay, I… Continue
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Download my free Creative Bursts workbook—fun, 15-minute play breaks to help get your creativity flowing: http://wp.me/pwZs5-1sN
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I still have a few spots left for free 30-minute creativity coaching sessions in May! Info here: http://wp.me/pwZs5-1ql
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A Pablo Neruda writing prompt to inspire your creativity! http://wp.me/pwZs5-1q5
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I'm offering free 30-minute creativity coaching sessions in May 2011: http://wp.me/pwZs5-1o9
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Warm Up Your Muse with Some Creative Foreplay! ‹‹ Strangling My Muse: http://wp.me/pwZs5-1oM
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I'm offering free 30-minute creativity coaching sessions in May 2011: http://wp.me/pwZs5-1o9
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I'm looking forward to meeting you, too, Renate!
Sandy Ackers commented on the event 'San Francisco SW First Birthday Meetup'
This sounds great! Thanks for organizing it, Meg. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you wonderful She Writes women.
San Francisco SW First Birthday Meetup at The Ferry Building - either at wine bar or the tables outside BookPassage/Pete's; details to come
June 29, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7pm
When: Tuesday, June 29th at 5:30 p.m.Let's gather at the tables OUTSIDE BOOKPASSAGE AND PETE'S. We'll have cake to celebrate, and you can bring eats and drinks from all over the ferry building or even from home. I'll try to get there early to stake out some room for us, but I think we can just mingle and mix and say hello.We need:Cake - LynneCandle - LynneCamera - MegNametags - WendySmall plates - MichelleForks - MegNapkins - VictoriaIf you can, please volunteer for one of the above, and in any…See More
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Hello Salonista friend!!
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Wow, three blogs! I sometimes have trouble keeping up with one. Thanks for the friend connection, Barbara.
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Hi Michelle, thanks for adding me!
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Hi Alice, thanks for the friend invite!
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- Strangling My Muse: Struggling to Live a Creative Life in a Stressful World
Catching Your Dreams Creativity Coaching
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- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir, Blog Posts
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I work with individual writers to help them unleash their creativity. This includes dealing with personal creative issues and/or getting over blocks, a more specific focus on a particular project, a general program to make creativity a regular part of life, or whatever else is needed.
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How John Cusack ruined Valentine's Day for Me.
Jeannette LeSure commented on the blog post 'How to Write Memoir? 1. Forget Writing Prompts and Exercises 2. Stake Out Your Territory'
While I agree that we can get carried away and even use prompts and exercises as effective avoidance techniques to tell ourselves, well, we ARE writing something, I found two books and a couple of classes to be enormously helpful in getting me going…
How John Cusack and his boom box ruined Valentine's Day:
http://goo.gl/SgMfN
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Amy Lynn Nolan commented on the blog post 'How to Write Memoir? 1. Forget Writing Prompts and Exercises 2. Stake Out Your Territory'
This is so beautiful. Thank you for your generous spirit and for sharing it. I am slowly working on a memoir that has been "near finished" for two years. I'm struggling not to let writing be "the first to go," when life gets…
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