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 […]
One of the best places on the planet is Sun Valley, Idaho. I lived there for a few months years ago, and my daughter recently spent a winter there. More importantly, Ernest Hemingway lived there off and on and it is the place he chose to die. To commemorate Hemingway and honor his time in […]
Welcome to a new series on creativity and how to unleash it in your writing. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be presenting the 15 crucial keys to consistently accessing your creativity. First, though, I want to talk about creativity in general. I consider it to be one branch of the Three-Fold Writer’s Path, […]
David the Poet wrote and told me he was reading an incredible Russian novel. "What a novel this is," he said. And because I admired that nice turn of phrase I ordered the book from Amazon. It is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Written as a satire during the Stalin years, and because […]
I’ve been reading about the search to name the new Seven Wonders of the World. Some of the frontrunners are The Great Wall of China, Machu Pichu, and the Colosseum in Rome. My own personal vote is for Chichen Itza, in the Yucatan, one of the coolest (though not temperature wise) places I’ve ever been. […]
My friend David Hetzler has a poem on the Short North Gazette. He’s an awesome poet, and he’ll be reading with the Umbrella Poets in Columbus, Ohio on July 27th. Go listen–he’s an awesome reader, too. Check out his poem in the Gazette here.
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