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February 1 NewZine

Do you have an interesting story to tell? Get interviewed by the Creativity Portal and get new exposure about your life, your profession, and/or your product or service. Alleviating That Thin Constant Writer's Anxiety Whitney Ferre is on a mission to open you to living life as both the ART and the ARTIST. Get Your Super Star Bookmark Are You Your Audience?
... I thought to myself (in run-on sentence form), "If I need to change the title and take the fun out of the writing, never mind publishing conventionally, I think I'll just publish the book myself because it is after all, a book on CREATIVITY so I'm thinking MAYBE it can be DIFFERENT." Two months later an agent grabbed the original version and within two weeks, five of the biggest publishing houses in New York were bidding for it. ... ... I had followed the advice of one of the Muses I wrote about—a Muse called Audacity. Book-promotion pundits say that writing a book is the feminine part and marketing it is the masculine. ... The over-emphasis on the masculine ~ on doing, being dynamic, out there ~ can make us neglect, within ourselves, the utterly essential need to be still, at times; to be present, receptive, available for what is capable of coming through us. Read more...