I’m in the middle of critiquing book manuscripts for the Mayborn Conference on Literary Non-fiction (it has some long official name that I can never remember) which is in Dallas weekend after this one. The writer-in-residence and also doer of anything remotely related to the conference, George Getschow, asked me to come up with guidelines […]
And so now it is Friday, and I’ve been on the go all day and I’m about to go to Happy Hour. But could I leave to drink a Martini without finishing up the series on creativity? No, I could not. So here are the last three keys. (You’ll find links to all the previous […]
Coming down the home stretch here with this series on creativity. This is part five. I’m going to provide the links to the first four parts at the end of this post. In part four, I talked about the power of momentum. Utilizing today’s first key is a great way to keep the momentum going. […]
The latest issue of Atlantic magazine apparently has an article about the rise of MFA programs in this country and what it all means. Actually, it doesn’t tell us what it all means because nobody really knows what it all means. There seems to be much consternation around the idea that scads more people are […]
Happy Monday…and welcome to the next installment of my series on creativity. You can read Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here. So…Monday. Some people may have awakened this morning and groaned at the thought of another work week beginning. Others may be excited and happy at the thought. Hopefully you fall […]
To write or not to write on this beautiful day? Let me detail the pros and cons: 5 Reasons Not To Write on A Hot Summer Saturday 1. Because it’s hot, duh. 2. Because I want to go play. 3. Because I have an appointment with a trainer to kill, I mean coach, me at […]
Ta-da: the next three keys to ceaseless creativity (Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Ceaseless. Creativity. Isn’t that what we all crave? Well, besides the usual other suspects. Which, come to think of it, generally distract us from ceaseless creativity. Ah well, one cannot live by creativity alone. Though one can try. Until […]
While writing my series on creativity, I started thinking about breaking rules. (Click here to read Part One of the series, and click here to read Part Two. Part Three will be posted tomorrow.) So, today, I want to talk about breaking writing rules. In yesterday’s post on creativity, I mentioned that one key to […]
On Monday, I wrote the introduction to this series on creativity, and it came out rather longer than I had originally anticipated. Hey, it’s a topic I’m passionate about. (Further proof of this, if you need it, is that I originally was going to present 12 Keys. But I kept thinking of more that are […]
As I’ve mentioned before, I attended a brief-residency MFA program that emphasized the inter-relatedness of the arts. Over the ten intense days of the residency, besides attending workshops and lectures on writing, and, ahem, staying up late socializing, we visiting museums and went to plays and musical performances. Yes, it was way too much fun […]
