Posts Tagged as: writing
traffic, tears and tenderness: lessons from 5 years of on-line hustling
Before I launched themanifestoofencouragement.com, I was a partner in an on-line “lifestyle media company.” I wrote about the soulful side of style. The stakes were high, we’d raised over half a million dollars to make it all fly. And thus, the site became…a content factory (insert sound of fizzling fire cracker.) I had 15 writers...
making space for creative credo
My palms are a bit sweaty. I’m taking deep breaths. I feel a bit misty, and, I’m smiling. This is a monumental decision for a bloggity being like me…here goes: I’m putting the comment function on WhiteHotTruth out to pasture. Comments are hereby closed. Gulp. Sigh. Namaste. I need to heed my own creative credo:...
innovate or die: purification + my work credo
PART 1: INNOVATION The most erotic word in my vocabulary right now is innovate. inn.o.vate. It’s one of my core desired feelings – to feel, be, and live innovate. I’m not talking about being innovative for the sake of it. (Innovation for the sake of innovation is masturbation.) I’m talking about being on my personal...
mothering.com: new column for modern mamas
I’ve got a new column on Mothering.com, called: Very Big Love: For Seekers, Mamas, and Mavens This week’s article: Mindful Speech and Supreme Kid-Respect It’s such an honour to be involved in anything that Peggy O’Mara does – she an icon of conscious birth and natural families. And get this – Mothering.com has the #1...
best article of 2009?
My pick: Bindu Wiles’ Unexpected Broken Heart. A Buddhist in Brooklyn on opening your heart and minding your manners.
burning questions with the communicatrix: from the hip, to the heart
Without exaggeration I can report that some of the Communicatrix’s writing has made me laugh so hard that I snortled – in front of people. Her poetry, which she publishes every Thursday, has made me cry multiple times. And she does these Full Monty Makeover ass-kicking assessments for websites, to which I’d like to send...
the first questions of publishing pursuits
I get a lot of email and questions in my Fire Starters about the publishing scene. Here are a few hard facts and beautiful possibilities of realizing your dream in the printed book world. In the immortal words of Johnny Cash, “I’ve been everywhere, man.” In terms of the book industry, I’ve agented books, I’ve...
letting go of cleverness makes room for true art
{This lovely little animation of The Golden Mean / Rule of Thirds is breathtaking and descriptive. I felt like my heart rate slowed down while I watched it inner-fold. Click here to view it’s movement.} The best writing advice I ever received was this: “Sometimes you have to let go of the jewels.” You have...
lessons from my favourite geeks
Geeks are wise. I’ve been at the mercy of many of them. I’ve pleaded for and demanded more white space, redundancy, and speed. I am a better woman because of the push back and expertise of the web designers and code writers who have served me so well. The finest geeks give you the straight...
- She has the knowledge you need to succeed. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.
— Martha Beck | Steering By Starlight - ... ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.
— Scott Belsky | Making Ideas Happen - Danielle's passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.
— Gretchen Rubin | The Happiness Project - ...the revolution you've been waiting for, it will shake-up and wake-up every aspect of your life.
— Kris Carr | Crazy Sexy Diet - ... the new, bad-ass Artist's Way.
— Linda Sivertsen | Generation Green - ... shows us how to do what the world tells us we can't: be unapologetic about our deepest desires.
— Gabrielle Bernstein | Spirit Junkie - The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to more engaged state of being.
— Jonathan Fields | Uncertainty - Money, failure, power, appreciation — The Fire Starter Sessions doesn't leave anything out of the mix.
— Barbara Stanny | Overcoming Underearning - Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you'll be one too after reading this masterpiece.
— Chris Guillebeau | The Art of Non-Conformity
there’s more in the hot shop
including freebies
- how do you want it all to feel? sensuous goal refinement + emotional magnetizing
- in honour of the fact that life is short
- i renovated the temple! fresh site + new treats! for everyone!
- focus, failure, assumption antidotes + surprise success: january roundup
- how to conduct a great interview: punctuations + emotion
- the manifesto of encouragement
- what is your relationship to…life?
- how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
- the grand pep talk: decide to rise (refer to this when in doubt, or sick & tired.)
- 20 personal money practices that got me to a place of grooving prosperity. (part 1)
