This is not what I set out to do. No matter how much I wish for and plan for my creative projects to go a certain way, they always come out differently. Plan Creative Projects? Creativity and planning don’t always mix well. One is more of a right-brain activity and the other more left-brain. For …
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I can give you summary of this post now: set realistic expectations … if you can. At least for me, that’s the trick with doing anything with great intensity. I’m writing this post in first-person. Even though the references here will be to “me” and “I”, you may find that you can relate with some …
You must begin. Until you start, your creative (or any) projects won’t finish themselves. (Don’t you hate that?) Here are some tips that might be starting points for taking your creativity beyond a concept or imaginative idea. (It will probably come as no surprise that these are exactly what I need now, too.) Do you …
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I’m posting today in response to a writing/creativity prompt from Jen Louden. I’ll be brief. (So brief that all the SEO tools will say this is too short.) My intention here is to spur you to consider how you can engage with your creative flow. Grit You know how to do the driving force thing. …
See on Scoop.it – creative process or what inspires creativity? Is creativity MORE important than all of the other attributes that demand our time, attention, and resources? stan stewart‘s insight: From James C. Kaufman and The Creativity Post. See on www.creativitypost.com
Creating things is a very enlivening process. The nature of making stuff is that it comes from the center — that impassioned internal something — that humans often hide from the rest of the world. Sharing one’s creative work is a revealing, an open-hearted act that for some is quite scary. This hiding and revealing …
As I’ve started to become part of the blogosphere, I am reading more and more blogs. I especially like to read the blogs of creative people. Typically, I like to count myself among them. I find that as I’m writing, there’s a temptation to compose the post as if I have a lot to say …
I had a Twitter conversation recently that invited me to look at the ways that I could use creative outlets to constructively involve the energy from feelings. That’s a mouthful, huh? Feelings as the energy of the moment I think that feelings are e-motion or energy-in-motion. (I think I first heard this concept from my …
Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat. Stan Stewart shares the experience of his creative process cycle.
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