Exploring Creative Intelligence & Writing with Orna Ross

Orna Ross is a novelist and creative nonfiction writer. She spent most of her adult life in Dublin, Ireland, where she freelanced for a wide variety of Irish and UK newspapers and magazines, and taught creative principles, writing and freewriting to disparate groups — from addicts in recovery with poor literacy skills to MA students. She founded Font Literary Agency & Writing Centre in Dublin in 2003 and supported many Font students and other writers to creative and publishing success. A serious illness in 2008 led to a re-evaluation of life and she now lives in London where she is at work on a new novel and a memoir, as well as blogging and speaking to groups about Creative Intelligence. Her most recent publication is a novel, A Dance in Time (Penguin 2009). Her website is www.ornaross.com.

Creativity & Writing Articles by Orna Ross

On Creativity & Eight Habits of The Creatively Intelligent
By Orna Ross
We’d all be more creative if we paid less attention to the surfaces, our doings and achievements, our ambitions and desires; and more attention to the depths, the hidden forces and faculties that lie within ourselves and others.

F-R-E-E-Writing Tutorial
By Orna Ross
F-R-E-E-Writing is very simple. Its basic requirement is that you write as fast as you can, either randomly or on a specific topic. You write the first thoughts that come to your head.