Subject: Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
April 11th, 2017 at 4:10 pm PDTA License for Creative Adventure “You’re doing everything I wish I were doing, or used to do.” “How come you get to go so many places?” “You must be outdoors every week!” I hear so much longing and envy whenever I post phot ...
Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
October 24th, 2016 at 5:32 pm PDTThe Risk of Freeing Your Voice Every time I lift pen to paper I am taking a risk. My words could fall short of the story I'm striving to tell or the message I'm yearning to communicate. I could fail. Singing is risky too, when anybody's around. M ...
Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
August 15th, 2016 at 9:40 pm PDTBuilding Creativity, Creatively ...
Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
July 22nd, 2016 at 2:37 pm PDTAllowing the Light and the Dark and the In Between One of my favorite writers is Liz Prato, author of the short story collection, Baby's On Fire, which many of you have heard me read in class. Liz once introduced me at a reading, with words that bro ...
♨Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
June 28th, 2016 at 10:33 am PDTAre You Doing the Work? Or Are You Concerned with Being in Control? "Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn't, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, ...
Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
May 13th, 2016 at 1:00 pm PDTTaming the Dragon, Taking a Risk Every time I lift pen to paper I am taking a risk. My words could fall short of the story I'm striving to tell or the message I'm yearning to communicate. I could fail. Sharing writing, too, is a risk. Last night ...
♨Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
April 20th, 2016 at 12:15 pm PDTDoes your story matter? “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” --Mae West I meet so many people who talk themselves out of their own dreams. Here's a big dream: to write that book. We don't write the book because we tell o ...
♨Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
March 30th, 2016 at 4:17 pm PDTOn Not Knowing What to Do "It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work." --Wendell Berry We learn as adults to rely on what we know; when things are hazy or unsure, we return to patterns, people, and habits with ...
Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
January 11th, 2016 at 12:34 pm PDTHappy New Year! Celebrate creativity with me. ...
♨Christi Krug's Wildfire Writing
November 8th, 2015 at 3:56 am PDTIs it time for a shift? “Change rooms in your mind just for a day.” --Hafiz Some months ago I worked with a writer who was frozen when it came to his goal of writing a novel. As we talked, I discovered that he had been telling himself from a v ...