Grace Kerina
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Writing, Creativity, and Empowerment Expert
Grace Kerina Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Writing, Creativity, Empowerment
- Career Focus
- Author, Writer's Shepherd, Editor
Grace founded The Writer's Shepherd to help writers and other creative explorers find their own path, with the assumption that creativity and writing involve the whole person. Curious writers use the art of writing in order to grow, and grow in order to further master the art of writing. The Curious Writer focuses on creativity and empowerment, for writers and anyone interested in finding their own way.
Grace has published articles online and in print magazines. She's the author the healthy boundaries guide, Stay Afloat When Theiy're Rocking Your Boat and a series of devious daily Creativity Prompts.
As a writer's shepherd, Grace helps authors who want to finish their writing project but don't know how, helping authors find their own trail through the wilde ess of possibilities. As an editor, she also evaluates and tweaks in the substantive and copyediting phases of writing.
Grace also founded HighlySensitivePower.com, to champion and empower those who are highly sensing. Different cultures value this quality differently, with the Western world landing (so far) on the side of less rather than more tolerance. Shifting that view can have a positive ripple effect on the culture.
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Stay Afloat with Healthy Boundaries
When folks around you make waves with their alien communication styles, fervent demands, or weird displays of power, you need healthy boundary skills that pop to the surface like a life preserver. Your imagination can roar to the rescue and save the day. To keep a grip on the real you when the ...When folks around you make waves with their alien communication styles, fervent demands, or weird displays of power, you need healthy boundary skills that pop to the surface like a life preserver. Your imagination can roar to the rescue and save the day.
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Notice What You Notice
My husband notices trains, shoes, and bakeries. A friend of mine notices sound patterns and graphic design. I notice light and color, emotions, and the shapes of people’s nostril holes. We can’t notice everything. We don’t have the time or the attention span. So we sort – based on our interests and fascinations, our habits, our past, and a whole lot more. Our fancy brains feed the resulting tidbits to our consciousness.
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Defending Stupid
I was minding my own business recently when someone close to me called me stupid. I’d lapsed into ignorance, slipped up, made a mistake, forgotten something important – because I’d been distracted by something more interesting. I’d chosen wonder over logic.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Grace Kerina
Creativity is a never-ending journey of discovery. Converting smudged treasure maps, knee-deep mud, leeches, an abundance of nut bars, and mind-numbing whining into a work of art requires curiosity and wayfinding muscles.
The type of learning that makes a consistent difference in the finished product involves the whole person. Jou eying into the interior is part of that process. We discover our own path as we ask questions and search for meaning. We report back through our creations.
One meaning of the word curiosity is an unusual, rare thing. A curiosity. Like you. We create better – more clearly, more uniquely, more confidently – when we value ourselves as curiosities, when we see ourselves as both odd and delightful.
How to get started
An easy way to start exploring content on The Writer's Shepherd is through the Wayfinder page.
The Writer's Shepherd philosophy of writing can be pondered over by going to the bottom of the Home page.
To learn more about using devious Creativity Prompts as muse bait, see the Creativity Prompts page.
Healthy boundaries positively affect all areas of life, including creativity. Stay Afloat When They're Rocking Your Boat is a short guide for holding steady when the folks around you ar making waves.
To learn more about Writer's Shepherd services, go to the Services page..
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Devious Daily Creativity Prompts