by Maxima Kahn | Mar 15, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Dream Creation, Inspired Creativity
Starving Is Not Good for Artists (or Other Living Things) In my Artist’s Way class this week we are looking at how our relationship to money and abundance impacts our creativity. We are looking at what we value and at the value of art. So today I want to write... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 7, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Dream Creation, Soulful Living
I am sacrificing and risking wildly to follow my path of dreams: To be a great artist, a great writer. I am “following my bliss.” But it doesn’t always feel blissful. What do we do when the path to our dreams gets really tough? How do we keep going? Should we keep... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jan 22, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
“Understand that you can have in your writing no qualities which you do not honestly entertain in yourself.” —Walt Whitman You Can’t Hide in Your Art An artist must take risks. An artist must be willing to be vulnerable in her art. But, being vulnerable does not come... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jan 9, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
Year of creativity This past year, with the help of some money from my father, who passed away in 2016, I gave myself a huge gift. I cut back my teaching hours by half and poured myself into my writing life. I taught only two short workshops and mainly worked with... 
by Maxima Kahn | Dec 21, 2018 | Creative Sparks, Soulful Living
The winter solstice is a time to pause, a time to reflect. It is a portal, an opening to the mystery. The darkest day, the longest night. Entering the deep cold. Entering the dark void from which life springs. The seed is deep within the earth, sleeping, waiting for... 
by Maxima Kahn | Nov 29, 2018 | Creative Sparks, Dream Creation, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
“For writers and artists, the ability to self-reinforce is more important than talent.” – Steven Pressfield Being able to validate yourself as an artist is so important to your ability to keep creating and enjoying it—and so up for me lately—that I just had to write...