Creation in Crisis

A writer and mother trying to keep creating while twirling through chaos

By Alice Kinsella

· Launched 2 years ago

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How doing it ALL has been bad for my writing
Shamelessly experimenting to find a sustainable creative practice
Jun 21•Alice Kinsella

'Write every day' is advice for a man's body
Cycle syncing your creativity
Jun 18•Alice Kinsella

Why incessantly talking about hormones & mental health is a radical post-colonial act
talking about my reproductive & mental health as an Irish woman is a radical act
Jun 14•Alice Kinsella

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Cats, trauma, epiphanies
story of my damn life, it seems
Jun 3•Alice Kinsella

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I have a new disorder
well, a rebrand, anyway
May 12•Alice Kinsella

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Behind the Pen: Pilgrimage
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Soft and sleeping creatures
Nov 24, 2024•Alice Kinsella

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Shame
Jan 6, 2025•Alice Kinsella

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Wuthering Heights, PMS, and creative license
Feb 15•Alice Kinsella

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The missing pumpkin
Nov 1, 2024•Alice Kinsella

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Poems
Oct 25, 2024•Alice Kinsella

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As a mother
on empathy & moral superiority
May 4•Alice Kinsella

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The Rest Cure
as resistance
Apr 24•Alice Kinsella

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Three things I learned from Lena Dunham's Famesick*
It reminded me of where I've gone wrong, and why
Apr 20•Alice Kinsella

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The hierarchy of rodents
the value of a life
Apr 17•Alice Kinsella

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Sex sells
making, marketing, self(ies)
Apr 10•Alice Kinsella

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The village myth
finding a tribe in a broken sprawling world
Apr 8•Alice Kinsella

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Mother, Inc
writing with other mothers
Mar 25•Alice Kinsella

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