Today I am Grateful, Gratitude Journal
Creative Struggles

The Grateful Artist

Being creative is hard work and the struggle is real. Whether you’re a writer, artist, or designer; whether you do it for your own pleasure or to make a living, maintaining motivation for your work is one of the hardest parts of creative work. It’s particularly difficult in today’s world where often profit and productivity […]

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Conditions for writing

Creating An Ideal Writing Space

I have to confess; I’ve succumbed to using a bit of clickbait tactics. Truth is, I don’t believe ideal writing spaces exist, but figured it’d catch your attention. To clarify, we all picture something different when we imagine our ideal writing space and its usually pure fantasy. For example, I picture a private library similar

Books

Exploring Natalie Goldberg’s Books

Over the past couple years, I’ve repeatedly had Natalie Goldberg’s books mentioned and recommended to me. I of course dutifully noted it, but as often happens with tons of recommendations I get, it kept pushing it to the bottom of my list. When I was granted a review copy of her latest book, I knew

Creative Struggles

On Feeling Behind in Life

I suspect that most people expect to have our lives together by the age of thirty. Despite the belief that we knew everything as a teenager, we were still children. And while technically an adult by twenty, we were just trying to figure out who we were. If you were anything like me that involved

About

Welcome to the Chaos

Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Alexis M. Collazo, at least that’s what I mostly use professionally these days. I also go by LexC or some variation on social media and for some past blogs and publications. This is not my first blog or website, I’ve actually been doing this for a couple decades. Yet it still feels very new to me.

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