Eight Habits of The Creatively Intelligent
We’d all be more creative if we paid less attention to the surfaces, our doings and achievements, our ambitions and desires; and more attention to the depths, the hidden forces and faculties that lie within ourselves and others.
Nurture Your Creativity: List What You're Thankful For
Much has been written about gratitude throughout the centuries, and with a common theme: Gratitude is a positive attitude or emotion that benefits us greatly when it's employed.
Author Lisa Crone's Inspiring Success Story
Her secret to intermixing positivity with passion and publishing her first book 'A Bead in Time: 35 Jewelry Projects Inspired by Slices of Life.'
The Joy of Creativity: Emergence
If I allow myself to speak, write words, or paint marks without knowing what I am going to say next or what I’ll end up with, eventually something will emerge.
Not-Knowing: A Sometimes Unnerving but Utterly Reliable Guide
We want to know. We want to know things beforehand, ahead of time. We want to know where we are going, why we are going there, what we will encounter (and should thus prepare for) along the way.
"Every morning, take a few moments to sketch and write about the strange places you visit in your nightly sojourns into the Land of Nod. Give your dreams titles, and date each one." — Molly Anderson-Childers,The Dream as Muse: Inspiration at the Stroke of Midnight!
I'll admit, I'm a little chicken to say this after *cluck* all of the April Fool's Day jokes I've played on you, *cluck* but you have to believe me this time because I'm absolutely not crying fowl *cluck*.
I'm peckingly pleased to announce the launch of my very first Creative Slush product, a 34-page printable cartoony "lessons" e-book now available for download from the CreativeSlush.com Web site. You Can Draw Cartoony Things! A Printable Creative Playbook is available in both a personal version and teacher's edition, and all the details about this creativity-inspiring tool are at the above link.
Now, to celebrate the launch of this eggstra-special teaching product, I'm making both versions available for half-price as a "going-back-to-school" promotion through the end of August. To download your copy or print a sample lesson, go to CreativeSlush.com.
Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher
P.S. Too chicken to draw cartoony things? Read this to find out what good things cartoony doodling can do for you!
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
Art of the Song Creativity Corner Life As Material By Eileen Kalinowski
“You’re the writer. You can do whatever you want with your material. It’s yours to play with, to fictionalize, to cut up into pieces; the sky’s the limit.”
Creative Solutions & Inspirations from the Modern Day Muses Previously on Marge... (Marge Reloaded) By Jill Badonsky
In last month’s column, Marge Part One, you were encouraged to make a start with a creative call you have or continue an “in progress” endeavor in real time. How did you do?
Inner Voices of Creativity I Can Do It Myself... Or Can I? By Anne Marie Bennett
For as long as I can remember, this “independent self” inner voice of mine has been in control of my life. Somewhere along the way, I learned that asking for help was dangerous.
26 Ways to Nurture Your Creative Life (an A to Z List) Doodle ‘n’ Draw Cartoony Things By Chris Dunmire
A confession, a thank you, and how Ray Bradbury's book, The Illustrated Man changed the course of my creative life.
An Endless Flow of Ideas: The Four Brainstorming Guidelines By Jurgen Wolff
Inspiration is wonderful, when it happens. The problem is that it is notoriously unreliable. (Excerpted from Chapter 4 of Your Writing Coach: From Concept to Character, from Pitch to Publication.)
