SARK Names Creativity Portal 'Excellent Writing Resource'

Bestselling author SARK includes Chris Dunmire's Creativity Portal as an "excellent writing resource" in her colorfully artful signature-style hand-printed book Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually DO It.

Invitation to Published Authors

Did you just write a book?

We want to hear from you! If your new (or about-to-be published) book explores creativity through an expressive, therapeutic, holistic, spiritual, or practical lens, or is related to art, writing, crafting, or other modes of creative expression please contact us and tell us about it.

Writer's Digest Names Creativity Portal a '101 Best Website'

Creativity Portal is a multi-year recipient of the golden Writer's Digest '101 Best Websites for Writers' award. This illustrious award is given annually to select Web sites in eight categories ranging from creativity and writing advice to agents and publishing/marketing resources. We're honored!

NCTE's 'English Journal' Recommends Creativity Portal

The English Journal is "NCTE's award-winning journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools." In this affirming review, editor Colleen A. Ruggieri highlights Creativity Portal's dynamic writing and blogging tools, expanding writing and photo prompt library, and examples of useful articles teachers can use to inspire writing in the classroom.

Creativity Portal Featured in 'Web-Based Learning'

Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers and Karen L. Rasmussen use Creativity-Portal.com as an example "portal structure" Web site in the textbook Web-Based Learning: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation (Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall). The book "equips readers with strategies for designing effective online courses, creating communities of web-based learners, and implementing and evaluating based on an instructional design framework."

Self-Care & Connection

Connecting Series 9

Why is it important to our well-being to connect? Self-care coach Linda Dessau takes a close-up look into why different forms of connection are vital to our health and happiness and ways to connect with others, our body, strengths, thoughts, surroundings, inner artist, and muse.

The Author's Checklist

Tightening and Sharpening Prose with Elizabeth Kracht 1

Literary agent Elizabeth Kracht observes that even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejection from agents and publishers. Most problems are easy to fix, and Kracht offers pointed advice for easily avoiding bad writing habits in 11 key areas with 5 decisive questions for review with your own writing.

Creativity

Achieve Higher Levels of Creativity with Susan Ann Darley 3

Susan Ann Darley, founder of Alzati Leadership Coaching, affirms that everyone is creative and urges, "It's time for each person to own this and use it to solve our challenges and heal the world." This consciousness-raising series explores opportunities to raise our awareness through excerpts from The Talent Show, including Bridging the Creativity Gap; The Creativity Conundrum; and Seeking the Artist Within.

9 Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) 12

Meet Jill Badonsky's amusing muses Aha-phrodite, Albert, Marge, Bea Silly, Spills, Audacity, Lull, Shadow, Muse Song, and Arnold (the Bodyguard) and learn how they can masterfully guide you through the stages of your creative process.

Alan Watts on Zen 3

In Zen, Watts captures the essence of Zen Buddhism as a religion and a way of life, including the influence of Zen in the arts. Includes The Momentous Harmony, The Cultural Effects of Zen, and Direct Pointing.

Habits to Spark Creative Genius 9

Author Jeannine McGlade is an expert on creativity and innovation and takes you through nine strategies to spark your creative genius in this engaging series.

Eric Maisel on Creativity, Depression, Meaning 11

Creativity coaching pioneer Eric Maisel is the author of Making Your Creative Mark, The Van Gogh Blues, Mastering Creative Anxiety, Brainstorm, and many other books on creativity.

Managing Through COVID-19

What Might Help? 3

Useful tools off the beaten path in the spirit of "what might help?" to manage through these challenging times. Features: Attending to Self-care; Managing the Spaces in Between; and Connecting and Reconnecting.

My Creative Space

How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation with Donald M. Rattner 3

Your home is more than a castle; it's a catalyst for creative ideas. In this expansive series based on his book My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, award-winning architect and educator Donald M. Rattner explains how simple and accessible techniques for shaping your home can boost creativity and spark innovation.

Eckhart Tolle

Using 'The Power of Now' Journal to Enter into Your Sacred Creative Space 1

If you've found Eckhart Tolle's perspective-shifting book, The Power of Now a useful accompaniment to moving through your days, then you are already primed to use the practice of mindfulness as an in-way to accessing your own sacred creative space. Here's three ways the Journal can help you combine mindfulness practices with creative action.

Innovative Art

Collage Cubies: How to Create Innovative 3D Paper Art 5

Collage Cubies are a fun play on traditional collage art which results in a three-dimensional sculpture with delightful, and often unexpected results. This step-by-step project includes two printable Collage Cubie templates for large and small cubes. Try making Collage Cubies once and you'll never view paper collage art from 'inside the box' again!

Guided Imagery Meditations for Your Creative Journey 9

Guided Imagery intertwines words and imagination to evoke positive scenarios and possibilities to stimulate and inspire your creativity. This collection of meditations center around the themes of discovery, expansion, surrender, nurturing, trust, courage, play, freedom, and comfort, inspired by the Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™ model developed by Jill Badonsky with Robert Maurer, PhD.

Creating Your Writer's Life 9

Author and writing coach Cynthia Morris leads writers to creating a productive writer's life through a priorities inventory, overcoming excuses, and realizing their most valuable writing tool.

Cynthia Morris

The Busy Woman's Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book 3

In The Busy Woman's Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book, author Cynthia Morris leads writers along a path of possibility to writing a book that will, at the very least, change your world and maps the essential terrain needed to get there: developing an author mindset, getting started with writing, managing content, and finishing your book.

Imagine Magazine

Everyone is Creative: How to Nourish and Flourish Your Own Creative Style 1

This inspiring piece by Kelle Walsh demonstrates how we all possess the tools necessary to expand our creative horizons, and it's learning to use them, and then applying them in everything we do, that counts. Features 9 creativity tips, interview excerpts from Creativity Portal founder Chris Dunmire, and 10 ways to be creative right now.

Random Imagination Prompt Generator 1

Engage your innate world of imagination and uncover hidden gems through the element of surprise. Open to possibilities and allow this inspirational instrument to help you reach beyond the surface and dip deeply into your creative well. Are you ready?

Freeing the Writer Within with Natalie Goldberg 9

Classic Writing Down the Bones author Natalie Goldberg offers an abundance of wisdom for writers through interviews and selections: Beginner's Mind, Pen and Paper; Engendering Compassion; Alleviating Writer's Anxiety; Warning! (To Writers); What is Practice?; Flourishing in Your Writing; and more.

Writing Your Way Home 6

Satya Robyn is a novelist, psychotherapist, Buddhist priest and the co-founder of Writing Our Way Home. Through the practice of mindful writing, Satya leads you through the experiences of slowing down, fear, gratitude, and joy.

SARK on Creativity and Transformation 5

Our juicy collection where best selling author and artist SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) explores creativity, inner critics, change and loss, and perfectionism.

Roslyn Rus

Journey of Self-Discovery 3

Roslyn Rus is an empathic workshop facilitator and writer who helps individuals to explore who they truly through their own personal Journey of Self Discovery. This series includes activities from her book Bridge to Oneness: An Interactive Spiritual Workbook for Here and Now to help you connect and reconnect with your divine spark, inner child, and global village of teachers.

The Bright Way

Freeing the Creative Within with Diana Rowan 4

From an early age Diana Rowan knew she was destined to be a musician, but experienced crippling performance anxiety that caused her to give up her dreams of being a professional musician. After a deep spiritual, emotional, and psychological journey, Rowan found her way back to living her creative dreams and shares her journey in this inspiring series based on The Bright Way: Five Steps to Freeing the Creative Within.

Personal Power Through Awareness

Opening Your Intuition with Sanaya Roman 1

What is intuition, and how does it operate? In this selection from her groundbreaking Personal Power through Awareness: A Guidebook for Sensitive People Sanaya Roman explores ways we can tune into our intuitive intelligence as part of our creative process, inner guidance with a four-step exercise.

365 Pictures: Daily Photo and Prompt 1

This hidden treasure's inspired untold teachers, students, and writers since 2009. Our photo-prompt-a-day feature is the result of the collaborative efforts of scores of artists, photographers, writers, teachers, and creatives worldwide who answered the call to participate. Their contributions combined personal pictures, images, art, and illustrations with global perspectives to spark your imagination.

In Praise of the Creative Spirit 11

Peter Clothier is a long time observer of the contemporary art world, and a widely published writer. Enjoy thoughtful conversation and pieces from Persist, Slow Looking, and Mind Work.

Light Bulb Moments on Tap 7

Imagineer Tom Evans invites you to change the way you think so your mind works to your advantage and you are not a slave to your thoughts.