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Listening: Basic to Creativity and to Business
One of the most important disciplines in developing individual creativity is listening. |
Ideas for Decorating Wood Picture Frames
When decorating with faux gems, small shells, polished pebbles, or other interesting craft supplies and natural items, you can turn ordinary wood picture frames into extraordinary photo displays. |
Creative Careers: An Interview with Author Naomi Rose
Naomi Rose is a writer and Book Developer with over 30 years in the publications field. She works with writers, frequently first-time book writers, to nurture their book into being. |
It's All Write: On Finding & Expressing Your Words
Be bold. Be passionate. Allow yourself the freedom to find your words and to explore your thoughts through words. |
Love of the Craft: Looking at Your Preferences and Passions
A quick two-step exercise you can use to take a conscious look at your preferences and passions. |
Art of the Song: Creativity — Intelligent and Trustworthy
The common idea is that some are creative and some are not. We’ve confused the concept of talent of creativity. Our longing to create doesn’t come from a tendency towards a particular talent, but an innate need to manifest the truth of who we are. |
Creativity Cookies: One Full Flavour
Choosing and completing one creative project while enjoying it to its fullest flavour. |
Juicy Journals & Wild Words: Journaling Online
Personal and professional advice for anyone who blogs, writes, or journals online. |
Creative Abstracting
Because sense experience and sense imagery are rich and complex, creative people in all disciplines also use abstracting as an essential tool. |
Creative Photo Inspiration: Find a Patch of Sunlight
With sunlight as my guide, I am more open to creative epiphanies that may be right in front of my face. |
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How-to and Other Good Advice |
Creativity Portal's How-to Directories
If you're looking for free projects, how-to instruction,
or good advice about topics related to art, crafts, writing, and
creativity, this is a great place to start.
No matter if you want to learn how to design a
Web site, paint with watercolors, self-publish a novel, or boost
your creativity, our topical directories contain a wealth of information
in the form of Q & A, articles, free projects and tutorials,
and quality online resources personally chosen by the Creativity
Portal to assist you on your creative journey. In addition, you'll
find an abundance of our own original complementing content and projects
along the way.
Learning Categories
How-to Directories
(Note:
These are not free-for-all directories full of random Web
sites).
Features topical how-to, articles, projects,
and offline instructional resources hand-selected by the Creativity Portal.
How to: Fine Arts and Crafting
Want
to learn how to draw, paint, decoupage, macramé, fold origami,
or needle craft? You'll learn all kinds of tips and techniques
from experienced professionals and hobbyists from our selection of
instructional arts and crafts sites.
How to: Writing
The art of writing takes on many forms. Here you can explore a variety of
writing topics including calligraphy, journaling and blogging, creative writing,
fiction writing, and collaborative writing.
How to: Creativity
What is creativity? How can you be more creative? Where can you find a creativity
coach, workshop, or free brain building puzzles? Find answers to these and
more in our Creativity and Inspiration section.
Professional and Technical Categories
Advice Columns and Q & A — Answers and good advice
for artists, crafters, writers, and other creativity enthusiasts.
Q & A — Help Along
the Way
An ongoing feature on the Creativity Portal to help readers find answers to
their questions related art, crafts, writing, and creativity.
Be Creative!
Various Authors
Articles by creativity, personal, and life coaches, artists, crafters, and other
creativity enthusiasts designed to inspire, motivate, and educate.
Self-Care for Creative Artists
By Linda Dessau
Articles to help increase your awareness of your own self-care issues, and how
they might be linked to your creativity and your creative dreams.
Be Mused: For Artists,
Writers and Lost Souls
By Susan M. Brackney
From copyright laws to the effects of Paxil, author of The Lost Soul Companion,
Susan M. Brackney offers inspiration and good advice for anyone looking
to live their dreams — no matter what they may be.
Art,
Writing & Creativity Articles
Various Authors
A variety of inspirational, informative, and motivational articles (and projects)
by
authors,
artists, writers,
coaches,
and
other
creativity enthusiasts.
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Listening: Basic to Creativity and to Business
One of the most important disciplines in developing individual creativity is listening. |
Art of the Song: Creativity — Intelligent and Trustworthy
The common idea is that some are creative and some are not. We’ve confused the concept of talent of creativity. Our longing to create doesn’t come from a tendency towards a particular talent, but an innate need to manifest the truth of who we are. |
Creativity Cookies: One Full Flavour
Choosing and completing one creative project while enjoying it to its fullest flavour. |
Creative Abstracting
Because sense experience and sense imagery are rich and complex, creative people in all disciplines also use abstracting as an essential tool. |
Creative Photo Inspiration: Find a Patch of Sunlight
With sunlight as my guide, I am more open to creative epiphanies that may be right in front of my face. |
Business Success, the Creative Way
Business requires sustainability. Business seeks niches. Sustainability and niche marketing are achieved through creative practices. |
Scar Tissue: Celebrating Failure
We all bare the scars of failure. Life breaks everyone. However, some people end up stronger in the broken places. |
Creative Imaging and Enhanced Insight
Is creativity a learnable skill? And can anyone learn to perform those extraordinary feats we traditionally think of as limited to a few talented individuals? |
How to Avoid Prematurely Killing the Next Big Idea
New ideas look strange. They seem impractical. They make us feel uncomfortable, and they change the status quo. |
Rethinking Thinking
An introduction to a new series by David Jiles, Ph.D. that presents a dozen secrets of the mind shared among all for whom we identify as creative geniuses: Einstein, Hemingway, Picasso, Tesla, Beethoven and countless others throughout the centuries. Read the first secret: Observation. |
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