by Antonina Mamzenko | Nov 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
What does your creative practice look like? Mine looks a bit like this: Nature walks and swimming in the sea, Photography and collage, Embroidery and working with found objects, Staring at the wall and driving in silence, Conversations with friends, Gardening by trial...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the actual play podcast (if you’ve never heard the term, think improvised radio play) Chapter and Multiverse that my teen introduced me to, one of the characters, Mini Smithson (played by Lydia Nicholas) is an alien pretending to be human – but not...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’m staring at a blank page today. I’m not quite sure what I want to write about. I have so many drafts and half-started essays, all of them competing for my attention. It frustrates me. Should I write about walking the tightrope of a public creative practice, and the...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have written recently about my decision to leave Substack, resurrect my own blog and get back to managing my own newsletter. Today, I’ll go over the choices I made (and why I made them) because I know how useful it can be for others considering similar moves....
by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Diana Gabaldon sat down to write her first novel, she did it for practice. She’d not written fiction before and figured that the best way to learn – and see if she’s any good at it – is to just write one. She settled on historical fiction because, by...
