To distract myself from the impending frenzy of National Novel Writing Month, I’m participating in a how-to writing contest for Geeks Are Sexy. When I was a kid, it was a bad thing to be a geek. It meant you weren’t cool, the rich kids wouldn’t talk to you, and you sat at the lunch [...]
A post last week on the Writer’s Perspective, a Writer’s Digest blog by editor Maria Schneider, got me thinking about creative rituals. Schneider’s ritual involves generating as much stress as possible before beginning to write. “Procrastination, anxiety and outward chaos seem to be part of what it takes for me to get into the flow,” [...]
During my morning reading, I followed a link which led me to a link, which led me to 7 Habits of Highly Defective Bloggers on Life Training Online. It’s an eye-catching headline for many reasons, such as the obvious parallels with the famous book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and the fact that everyone [...]
Ideas come in floods or not at all. Right now the floodwaters are roiling across the surface of my serenity, lapping against the crumbling sand of my island of sanity. Every so often I’m seized by this frenzy of creativity. I want to learn everything, now. I want to do everything, now. I read a [...]
Have you always wanted to be creative but didn’t know where to start? Everyone wants to think more creatively, whether at work, home, or school. Finding a hobby in which to immerse yourself is the best way to bring out your creative instincts. A hobby doesn’t have to be one of the “arts” to inspire [...]
