by christawojo@gmail.com | Aug 17, 2018 | †3 Dark, For Writers, Interviews, On Creativity
Richard Thomas writes about the dark and strange. I first read his collection of stories called Staring into the Abyss. A few of those stories hit a nerve, and that rarely happens for me. I’m now devouring his Tribulations. Richard has an extensive list of...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Christa Wojciechowski, For Writers, On Creativity, Poems, Quote Images, Uncategorized
Writers can get grouchy when life gets in the way of writing. It feels good to create something everyday, even if it’s a tiny off-the-cuff poem. Subterranean This is how she moves in the dark under the cover of words This is how she lights up when the moon winks...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog, For Writers, On Art, On Creativity, Self-publishing, SICK, Works in Progress
Where I live in the mountains of Panama, the only change of season we see is from rainy to dry. This begins to take place in November. There’s a shift in the wind and the town braces itself for the Fiestas Patrias (Panama’s Independence Days). Strings of small plastic...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Jun 9, 2016 | Artist Dates, Blog, On Creativity, Uncategorized
I used to want to be a painter more than I wanted to be a writer. As high school graduation approached, my art teacher encouraged me to look at art schools moved me up to portfolio classes, but I gave up before I got started. I didn’t see a future in it. How...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Jun 7, 2016 | Cool Giveaways, On Creativity, Uncategorized
I’ve begun reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. This book is a workshop to discover and recover your creative self. All of us lose that dauntless creative spark as we get older, and I wanted to develop a creative lifestyle so that I would get into a...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Oct 23, 2015 | For Writers, On Creativity
As a creative person and one who’s plagued by existential questions, I get trapped into that circle of thinking if what I’m doing matters. Will anyone read my writing? Will anyone care? Will I ever be able to make a living from it? Am I just wasting my time and energy...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Oct 16, 2015 | For Writers, On Art, On Beauty, On Creativity
I live in the Chiriquí highlands, a land of eternal spring that bursts with flowers all year long. My yard is full of countless colors and species. There are pinks, yellow, blues, reds, purples, fiery oranges, and blazing whites. There are orchids, daffodils, roses,...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2015 | Character Appearances, For Writers, On Creativity, The Sculptor
I love to nag people for interviews, and annoying as I may be, some very famous people occasionally indulge me. This was the case with world renowned sculptor, Antoni Azarov. Even though the press dub him, and I quote, an “asshole,” I’ve discovered once you get used...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Feb 20, 2015 | On Creativity
So I have this invention… This idea for a gizmo has been bouncing off the walls of my skull for over a year now. I thought that surely it was such an obvious idea that someone, somewhere must have come up with it already. I looked for it in stores, but I never...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Jan 16, 2015 | For Writers, On Art, On Creativity
I’m still studying Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham. As I said in my first article about the book, great writers are those who write stories that are relevant throughout time. They expose universal truths that apply to our lives no matter what century we...
