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.
May 15, 2007|Lulling Around in the Creative Process
Quoteworthy
"At first there’s just a tight green bud ... laden with the promise, intrigue and possibility that something beautiful inside is waiting to reveal itself." — Dan Goodwin,Get the Most from Your Creative Idea
It's no coincidence that we find some of our deepest sources of creative inspiration from the beauty and mystery in nature. In fact, several contributors this week have used these inspirations both literally and metaphorically in describing ways in which we can experience richer creative lives.
Yes, in addition to the bounty of regular features, this issue has lots of good, 100% natural stuff to feed your creative life. Now pardon me while I go wash the garden dirt from underneath my fingernails. Hey, I'm not kidding!
Introducing Creativity Corner Essays by Eric Maisel
Art of the Song Creativity Radio fans will be thrilled to know that we have just published the first in a series of new Creativity Corner essays by America's foremost Creativity Coach Eric Maisel, Ph.D. These essays are from his on-air segments with Art of the Song Creativity Radio and are excerpted from his books: Creativity For Life, A Writer's Paris, and A Writer's San Francisco.
Eric's first essay is Crafting a Starting Ritual, which describes eight different rituals you can use regularly and routinely to help yourself create every day. We're happy to bring Eric's perspective to you through our partnership with Art of the Song Creativity Radio, which you can listen to online. You can learn more about Eric's books, podcasts, courses, and workshops at www.ericmaisel.com.
Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
Art of the Song Creativity Radio: Creativity Corner Segments Crafting a Starting Ritual By Eric Maisel
Eight starting rituals you can begin to use regularly and routinely to help yourself create every day.
Creative Solutions & Inspirations from the Modern Day Muses Doing Nothing with a Muse called Lull By Jill Badonsky
I have a secret for you — no it’s not THE SECRET. Heavens no, it’s even better because this one involves, are you ready? Doing nothing.
PLUS: Meet the Modern Day Muse Lull
Love of the Craft Do I Need to Learn "the Rules" of the Writing Craft? By Dave Duggins
Q: I write as a hobby but have also started two books. A writing instructor who has taught at several colleges is a well-known expert/author in the writing field. I heard him say that for one to be a good writer, one must take a class and "learn" the proper way of the craft. I feel that doing so would limit my freedom, etc. What do you think?
Inner Voices of Creativity Drinking from the Bowls of Life By Anne Marie Bennett
My gift to you is the deep knowing that you are worthy of abundance and all good things. I give you freedom from guilt and freedom from the heavy weight of impossibility. I give you joy and wholeness.
Creative Careers in the Arts Interviews An Interview with Dorothy-Clare Jacobs By Molly Anderson-Childers
Dorothy-Clare is a quick-on-her-feet creative-thinking occupational therapy assistant in a long-term care facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
More What's New @ the CP
Summer’s Creative Exuberance By Cynthia Morris
I vote for summer as the season most likely to spawn creative progeny. In fact, summer invites us to regress to our purest child-like impulses.
Step Up to the Plate By Susan Ann Darley
Sometimes we carry deeply ingrained feelings with us, often from our childhoods, that prevent us from fully participating in life.
You are the Treasure Embedded in Your Book By Naomi Rose
What makes a book work, despite the popular belief, is not that it meets some external standard. It’s that your presence is at the heart of it. YOU are the jewel embedded in the writing
Deep Roots By Angi Sullins
What condition are your roots in? Do they reach deep into the nutrients of self care? By being good to ourselves, we grow. And in growing, we create the fruit that feeds the forest.
