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The Red Door:
Expanding Your Capacity for Inspiration
Break through creative blocks with this guided imagery exercise.

Learn:

Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned Painting
Clear Writer's Block: Reader-Centric Writing, Profiling Your Readers
Your Book's Bottom Line: Tracking and Totals
There is No Wrong Way to Doodle
Being Open... for Creativity
What is Creativity? (9 Creativity Triggers)

Take A Guided Imagery on Discovery
Set sail on a sea of ink, and cast your nets for a dream-fish. Consult your map, and steer your course towards your goal.

Promotion, Profit or the Poorhouse
Marketing is essential to promoting your book. Learn how advertising, book reviews, promotional items, and promotional events (book readings, signings, speaking engagements, book fairs) impact your book's bottom line.

Creative Writing and Idea Sharing in Gym Class
Want to get your kids engaged in a fun collaborative writing project that incorporates movement and creative thinking? This idea can be adapted to regular classroom use too!

Do you want to write a book? Then you'll want to calculate the costs involved if you are concerned about being able to afford it or turning a profit. Deb Simpson shows you the ropes through her article series on book publishing and selling.

Kindness: A kinder world, one thought at a time.

A Kinder World : Kindness Web Resources Promoting Kindness

Acts of Random Kindness: Sources, Free Printables & Pass-Along's

Promoting kinder living, random acts of kindness, world peace, and goodwill.

Kindness Free Beverage Gift Card FREE Kindness Pass-Along Gift Card Series
Creativity Portal's own free printable kindness cards series! Four card styles available: The general Random Acts of Kindness Card, Beverage Gift Card, and two styles of a Christmas Beverage Gift Card.

Dr. Hope's Act of Kindness Contest
An ongoing opportunity to elementary school aged classes, groups and organizations to help make the world a better place. Inspired by Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Dr. Hope's storybook, Laughing Day.

Paying it Forward: A Random Act of Kindness Story
By L.A. O’Neil
My husband and I were coming back from Vail, Colorado, and we decided to stop in Silverthorne for breakfast at a local watering hole — I think it was a Denny’s, but I’m not sure. All I know is that I was starving, and I could have scarfed anything on my plate within a matter of seconds.

We ordered, and as we were enjoying our coffee while waiting for our food, two high school girls came in and sat in the booth across from us, both seated on the same side. They dumped their money on the table, and started picking through the mound of change. More »

The Kindness Project
"Where kindness knows no strangers." This site features kindness tokens you may purchase — each with a unique serial number. Once you release your tokens into the world (by kindly passing them on to someone else) you can track them on the Web site and read subsequent recipient comments and stories.

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Practicing and promoting kindness every day! Promotes kindness in the classroom with free Teacher's Guide, lesson plans, activity ideas, and other materials.

The RAOK Group
Promoting random acts of kindness on the Internet. This is "An online group of men, women and children who joined together from all corners of the earth to make the Internet a better place. They send cards, sign guestbooks & send little notes of encouragement to others in an attempt to show a little kindness."

World Kindness Movement
In acknowledgement of the fundamental importance of simple human kindness. "The mission of the WKM is to inspire individuals towards greater kindness and to connect nations to create a kinder world."

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