“Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else’s snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It’s world-creating. It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next. It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.” WritingImaginationVisionCreativityNovelDiscoveryFearlessIntimacyCreative ProcessDreamingVisionaryStaminaNovelistThin AirArt MakingCreatives Author:Laurie Perez
“Sometimes we get lost inside the process. In acting, Amie, it’s almost self-destructive, how much we care. How much of the world I let in and choose to feel. It can be overwhelming if you’re not prepared.” ActorsCompassionEmotionsOpennessCreative ProcessSelf DestructionCraftAmie MartineActing QuotesActing Life Book:The Look of Amie Martine Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“Compassion, in its essence, is neutral. It’s holistic that way, and powerful because it yields a much wider perspective free of judgment or stress of any kind. We use it all the time in our work the way we’re always studying humanity intensely — always walking in someone else’s shoes, feeling the seams in their socks, wounds and elations in their souls.” SoulHumanityActorsActingCompassionStressCreative ProcessActorTac Shop Book:The Power of Amie Martine Source: The Power of Amie Martine
“Sunny thought he could rally satisfaction by wringing the bare facts of his befuddlement out through the tight spinners of the Poet’s mind.” PoetConfusionClaritySpellsCreative ProcessMind PowerAmie MartineD Dodds Berry Book:The Cosmos of Amie Martine Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine
“IN HIS PRESENCE, I FEEL OUR AXIS RECALIBRATING. Where North was once —and for eons — the assigned pull of the Earth, in Sunny’s universe, all magnets drive us South. Or West. Or deep into the core because that’s more interesting to him. He’s a world-creator; he doesn’t walk from A to B the way most humans do, seeing what’s provided then dealing with, lamenting or pondering it. He creates what he wants and when you walk a path with him, you get shaped and reinvented, too. Not against your will, but more in tune with aspects of it, unfolding into the potential of a secret craving, fully funded. ~Amie, getting to know Sunny in The LOOK” ActorsCreativityFilmmakerCreative ProcessSpeculative FictionCreate Your WorldFilm MakersActor FilmmakerFilm Producer Book:The Look of Amie Martine Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“You’re full of keys and clues, crafty in your use of ordinary tools. You were creating from the moment we got here. Poets are formidable spellcasters—and equally skilled at shattering illusions. You’re made to be free from petty manipulations.” RealityCreative ProcessPoetsIllusionsSpellworkAmie MartineIrish PoetSpellcasters Book:The Cosmos of Amie Martine Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine