
Magpie Mind: Live an Inspired Life
Writing Well, Book 2
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Laura Turnbull Fyfe
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Rachel Kay
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Laura Fyfe
About this listen
It's human nature to create, but too many of us simply wait for inspiration to strike. Why not learn how to actively encourage your imagination?
If you're an artist, writer, thinker, or innovator and want to bring more bursts of brilliance into your life, then you'll want to learn how to think like a magpie - by responding to the spontaneous sparkle of new ideas whenever they occur.
Drawing on research from writers, artists, and innovators, Magpie Mind: Live an Inspired Life provides strategies and activities that will ignite your imagination. Listen to find out how to:
- find inspiration wherever you go,
- cultivate your creative instincts,
- fly beyond your inhibitions,
- rediscover child-like wonder, and
- find your unique voice.
Laura Fyfe is an award-winning non-fiction writer and workshop facilitator, and a master of procrastination. She's built businesses, apps, facilitated writing communities, written blogs and even two books on procrastination and creativity in order to put off her novel writing. She uses that experience, plus 15 years of supporting teens and adults with their writing, to support others in their creative aspirations.
If you want to live a life filled with fascination, insight, verve, and enthusiasm, download and listen to Magpie Mind today.
*Choose to listen to either of two narrators. A US narrator or the bonus material, read by the author, in Scots.
©2019 Laura Turnbull Fyfe (P)2020 Figment BooksListeners also enjoyed...
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