Alessa’s Adversaria

Adversaria: (pl) (n) a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or observations.

Inspiration

A Rolling Stone…

Steven Pressfield discusses in his book, The War of Art*, the impact of our own inner Resistance on our desires to accomplish our dreams. Resistance with a capital R, because there's nothing stronger to stop us from accomplishing our dreams than our own inner voice, an inner voice that does everything in its power to hold us back, chiefly out of fear. But... "Fear...

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Going Deep – F-R-E-E Writing

F-R-E-E Writing stands for Fast, Raw, Exact-but-Easy writing. It's a stream-of consciousness writing exercise touted by Orna Ross (Irish author and poet, and founder of the Alliance for Independent Authors) as a great tool to plunge into the depths of your soul so that what comes out on the paper is as true to yourself as possible. This exercise can be used in any...

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