<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt segues out of last week&#8217;s &#8220;color green.&#8221; This is a short piece of music, &#8220;All in a Garden Green,&#8221; by English Renaissance composer William Byrd (1540-1623). Apologies for &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/06/makers-day-6/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=

<p>I don&#8217;t often do blogposts like this, but realized today that I have a bunch of things coming up, so today&#8217;s post is a Preview of Coming Attractions. 🙂 First, I&#8217;m very excited about two classes I&#8217;ll be teaching soon. Next Monday, 7/11/22, I&#8217;m starting a six-week session of Writing with Musical Inspiration, an online &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/07/05/news-and-updates/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="sc

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. Today&#8217;s prompt is a color: green. I recently took a wonderful poetry workshop at Blue Mountain Poetry Salon, in which we were each asked to choose a color and think &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/29/makers-day-5/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 5</span></a

<p>Today is a bit of a down day. There&#8217;s a lot going on in the world (right now, especially here in the US) that&#8217;s dark and nerve-racking. I&#8217;m definitely having one of those days where I wonder about making art, what it&#8217;s good for, and what I&#8217;m hoping to accomplish with it. I&#8217;m trying to &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/28/music-for-meditation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Music

<p>If you&#8217;re a writer, do you like to listen to music while you work? For me, that used to be a hard no. I love music, but I used to need all the quiet I could get when I was writing, to get myself into the right head space. Things have changed a little over &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/21/musical-motivation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Musical Motivation</span></a></p>

<p>Each Wednesday on the blog, I’ll share a small prompt as food for reflection. Maybe you’ll also find it inspires you to make some art. This week’s prompt comes from my writing student Sandra Perez, who also takes beautiful photos. She shares these two images as our creative inspiration this week: What might one of &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/15/makers-day-3/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Maker&#8217;s Day 3

<p>Today I&#8217;m thinking about writing (when not?), and more particularly, the connection it has for me with mental health. Here on the blog, I&#8217;ve posted about my own mental health challenges, especially with anxiety and depression. I know many of us deal with similar challenges, and I like to be open about mine, because (a) &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/14/writing-and-mental-health/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-re

<p>Sometimes I get pretty philosophical here&#8230;hoping you&#8217;ll bear with me today! Making art is a challenging business. I know my fellow &#8220;makers&#8221; relate to this: we spend a lot of time, usually solitary time, piecing together the ideas in our heads, separating tangled threads and weaving them into something we hope will connect with someone &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/06/07/on-hummingbirds/" class="more-link">Continue reading <spa

<p>(aka Feline Writing Motivation) This past weekend, I listened to a thought-provoking speaker talk about the importance of finding and holding onto beauty in difficult times, and how beauty motivates us not just to admiration, but action. I&#8217;m mulling a blogpost that connects making art &#8211; which can sometimes feel like a tiny thing to &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/05/31/purr-therapy-thursday/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="

<p>Relaunching the blog after a very long time. Hope everyone is hanging in and staying safe and well! My second novel, Fourteen Stones, is forthcoming this fall from The Patchwork Raven, a brilliant indie press in New Zealand. I&#8217;m thrilled that this book will be out in the world; it was a project of love &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2022/05/10/new-in-2022/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">New in 2022!</span></a></p

<p>Today, mostly as a reminder and encouragement to self, I&#8217;m re-posting an old favorite from earlier this year. Apologies if you&#8217;ve read it before; but maybe, like me, you&#8217;ll find it helpful to read again. 🙂 &#8212;&#8211; You go for a walk, alone. Maybe it’s the kind of gray-sky winter day with a breeze that &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2019/06/04/re-post-conversation-with-the-zhinin/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="scr