November 2005 Newsletter #1

Give Yourself Permission to be an Artist

"People who like to pick apart and criticize new ideas can actually be very helpful in some stages of the creative process." — Royane Real, Do Creativity and Negativity Mix?

In This Issue

• November 2005 Journal
• What's New @ the CP

November 2005 Journal

by Chris Dunmire

Major Magazine Picks up Contributor's Article

If you've been thinking about submitting an original article to the Creativity Portal, here's one reason why it may be worthwhile: it could be a direct link to being published in print media. This is exactly what happened to one writer a few months after we published her article on our Web site.

Chris Zydel's article "Just Say 'Yes' to Your Creative Self" caught the eye of Weight Watchers magazine and will be appearing in their January 2006 print issue. Remember, you saw it first on the Creativity Portal back in July 2005.

We're ecstatic about this opportunity for Chris and congratulate her for being discovered through our Web site. See, you never know what may happen when your article is published on the Creativity Portal.

If this experience inspires you to submit an original article to our Web site, you can read our submission guidelines.

With that, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to those of you who have generously shared your expertise with our readers through the years, and to those of you who help support our site in other meaningful ways. Thank you.

Chris Dunmire
Publisher, Creativity Portal

What's New @ the CP

Permission to be an Artist — Granted!
By Linda Dessau
Why is it so difficult to authorize ourselves, grant ourselves permission and consent, to sanction our own creative work? Plus, ten signs that you've given yourself permission to be a creative artist.

Entitled to Be Exceptional
By Douglas Eby
Being exceptional — unusually skillful, smart, creative or otherwise more capable than the norm — may include a judgment both by others and ourselves as being an "outsider." Gifted and talented people can experience a self-defeating aversion to expressing talents that might separate them from other people.

The Plight Of Poetry
By Bruce Price
Quick, name a famous living poet. I bet that 99.99% of Americans can't do this. When I was a boy, they actually interrupted pop music on the radio to say that T. S. Eliot had died. Can you imagine this today? Once the lusty Queen of the arts, Poetry now seems dithering and irrelevant. What happened?

Top 10 Enablers of Organizational Creativity
By Wayne Morris
More than just a buzzword, creativity is becoming acknowledged as a critical factor in organisational success. Creativity in organizations might be defined as the process by which new ideas that make innovation possible, are developed.

Spiritual Highs and Other Effects of Being Creative
By Chris Dunmire
Most of the time creativity is discussed as a positive, uplifting quality that people enjoy and wish they had more of. Those who learn how to manage their blocks and enjoy their creativity have interesting things to say about it.