November 2005 Newsletter
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
- Creativity Tips
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 organisations
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.
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