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K. Ibura is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. K. Ibura's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
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Student of the Process
Posted on 17 October 2021
I just had a conversation this morning with a friend about writing. I know so many people with an amazing writing voice and vision. They’ll write something and share it with me. I’ll be like, this is amazing, for your next draft you should consider… And they’ll be like, the next draft?!? I’m done! I… »
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Daring to Write Like You (and Not Mimic Someone Else)
Posted on 28 August 2021
As I continue to meditate on what’s required to have a productive career, the word Bravery comes up. A lot of the blockages the we face are usually a tangle of logistics and emotions. We have full lives that require adjustment to consistently produce work and we have emotions and expectations that have to be… »
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Nurturing the Self
Posted on 30 July 2021
As humans, we often want others to believe in us more than we do. We want others to be more patient with us than we are with ourselves. We want others to see more possibility in us than we do in ourselves. There’s that saying, “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” I’ll… »
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On Being Committed to Yourself
Posted on 29 June 2021
Moving forward requires us to make certain agreements. Chief among them is committing to forward motion above all else. There will always be something dragging at us, creating friction. When exhaustion, doubt, uncertainty, and fear arrive to block our path, our job is to determine what is the priority: the emotions or the vision. One… »
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Making Space for the Magic
Posted on 30 May 2021
Making art is magical! But it doesn’t always feel that way. And for me personally, I get further and further away from that feeling the older I get. That’s why part of my process is looking for the magic. In the current draft of my novel, I have been developing the antagonists and the larger… »
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Offering Yourself Gratitude
Posted on 28 April 2021
Being an artist provides us with an embarrassment of riches. We can create from nothing! We can build worlds and moods, characters and situations. But our artmaking is often fraught with resistance and dissatisfaction. We don’t like our work, we don’t think we’re “real” artists, the work should be better, the work should be easier,… »
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Validating Our Efforts
Posted on 7 March 2021
It is so easy to discredit our efforts—even before we begin, we’re already criticizing our output and our efforts. Many of us have the instinct to diminish the value of our work and to determine we’ll never develop our work to the level we desire based on our early efforts. It’s really important to pay… »
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Embracing Imperfection
Posted on 6 March 2021
Mastery comes from being brave enough to allow your work to be weak, unfocused, muddy, and underdeveloped. You can’t reach mastery without going through so-so, not-so-great, and fair-to-middling. If you can’t stand your fledgling efforts, you’ll never make it to your highest expression. Being willing to be less-than-perfect is the greatest gift you can give… »
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Managing Doubt
Posted on 3 March 2021
We all have doubts. They become less powerful when you understand and accept that we ALL have doubts, The people who built bridges, wrote sonnets, left their countries, accepted presidencies. They all had doubts. Have doubts is a human condition. Ultimately, you have to decide who are you serving: the doubts or your goals? And… »
