Spark Your Creativity: Reads, Resources, and Opportunities
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🔥 Tools you can start using right now to create more
🔥 Inspiring reads from around the web
🔥 Grants you can apply to monthly
This month, we rounded up the best free/low-cost tools for writers to create more with not a lot of time or budget:
If you’re looking to get more productive with your creative energy and/or billable time, check out Toggl and see where you spend your time. This is great for solopreneurs, small teams, and writers with daily writing goals.
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Creative AF (And Focused) by Stephanie Dee Smith
On Living A Life On Your Terms
Leti is an artist, songwriter, yoga teacher, and creativity and life coach who about the creative process and the moments in between. Her post on giving yourself permission to be hits in just the right places:
Here’s a deeper layer: what truly holds us back is often the struggle to make peace with an older version of ourselves. The part of us that still clings to a past idea of who we were “supposed” to be—the attachment to a fixed identity, built somehow in our imagination.
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The Awesome Foundation is a global community designed to help creators bring their ideas to life. Since 2009, this organization has supported creative projects by awarding $1,000 grants with no strings attached.
The Our Greatness Micro Grants For Women of Color Podcasters offers micro-grants to independent Women of Color podcasters. Matriarch Digital Media team selects recipients monthly.
If your business is still an idea or making under $10K in sales, you qualify to apply for the WomensNet Startup Grant. Each month, judges award a $10K Amber Grant. Monthly winners are also considered for the $25K year-end Amber Grant.
In Case You Missed It…
This month, we shared 10 posts that include 4 audio episodes of “Fearless Creativity”.
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Thank you so much for sharing this I can’t wait to apply - love this post so inspiring
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