A SARK-Sational Inner-View - March 15, 2008 Newsletter

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Listening: Basic to Creativity and to Business
One of the most important disciplines in developing individual creativity is listening.

Art of the Song: Creativity — Intelligent and Trustworthy
The common idea is that some are creative and some are not. We’ve confused the concept of talent of creativity. Our longing to create doesn’t come from a tendency towards a particular talent, but an innate need to manifest the truth of who we are.

Creativity Cookies: One Full Flavour
Choosing and completing one creative project while enjoying it to its fullest flavour.

Creative Abstracting
Because sense experience and sense imagery are rich and complex, creative people in all disciplines also use abstracting as an essential tool.

Creative Photo Inspiration: Find a Patch of Sunlight
With sunlight as my guide, I am more open to creative epiphanies that may be right in front of my face.

Business Success, the Creative Way
Business requires sustainability. Business seeks niches. Sustainability and niche marketing are achieved through creative practices.

Scar Tissue: Celebrating Failure
We all bare the scars of failure. Life breaks everyone. However, some people end up stronger in the broken places.

Creative Imaging and Enhanced Insight
Is creativity a learnable skill? And can anyone learn to perform those extraordinary feats we traditionally think of as limited to a few talented individuals?

How to Avoid Prematurely Killing the Next Big Idea
New ideas look strange. They seem impractical. They make us feel uncomfortable, and they change the status quo.

Rethinking Thinking
An introduction to a new series by David Jiles, Ph.D. that presents a dozen secrets of the mind shared among all for whom we identify as creative geniuses: Einstein, Hemingway, Picasso, Tesla, Beethoven and countless others throughout the centuries. Read the first secret: Observation.

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March 13, 2008 | A SARK-Sational Inner-View

Quoteworthy

"It’s all about practicing in the middle. I used to think the middle was really boring. I used to be an extreme person, ups and downs. Now I’m thrilled to say I spend most of my time in the middle, and I‘m loving it." — An Interview with SARK

In This Issue

March 2008 Journal
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
More What’s New @ the CP

March 2008 Journal

A SARK-Sational Inner-view
By Chris Dunmire, Publisher

Let me revel in a delightful few minutes of pure joy as I rest here on this tremendous milestone accomplishment for the Creativity Portal Web site and for a very courageous interviewer that I'm honored to know.

I'm extremely pleased to present to the world a recorded interview with Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy — known to her fans worldwide as SARK (www.PlanetSark.com) — one of the most luminous creativity icons of our generation. More Journal »

Introducing Creative Writer Ryan Edel
Ryan Edel is a creative writer and part-time bartender living Raleigh, NC. He began writing stories in high school, when he was convinced that he would write the next great King Arthur story. Since then, he has branched out to literary stories and science fiction, though he has found romance to be as dangerous on paper as it is in life.

Ryan's first article on the Creativity Portal is Journal Your Inner Character, a reflection on the value of using journal writing to help with fiction writing. Learn more about Ryan's Web site, 1-2-Writing Workshops Online, which offers workshops and resources to help writers make the most of their fiction. Welcome, Ryan!

An Easter Gift for Newsletter Subscribers from Belle Keeney
After the last Creativity Portal newsletter went out, I received a thoughtful note from Belle Keeney of bellesprintables.com, who gave me permission to share this with you:

"... after reading your newsletter today I realized that I've been reading it and enjoying it for quite awhile and for some reason I thought it might be nice if I send along a little gift for your subscribers. It's a little Easter printable set. Just print at 'fit to page', cut and assemble. There's no strings attached, just wanted to do it to show appreciation for your newsletter."

You may remember Belle from her inspiring success story. She creates all kinds of fun printables as digital downloads on her Web site and I think it's just fantastic that she's generously made her Easter Gift set available for you to enjoy. More about Belle's printable gift is highlighted in the "Creativity Clips" section of this newsletter. Thank you, Belle!

Chris Dunmire

Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher

Monthly Columns & Featured Series

Creative Careers in the Arts Interviews
An Interview with Author & Artist SARK
By Molly Anderson-Childers
Read or listen in on a recorded MP3 Podcast interview with the original Succulent Wild Woman, Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, as she discusses her new book, creative living, tired cliches, and self-care secrets.

Art of the Song Creativity Corner
Space and Stillness
By Don Richmond
Be okay with sitting there with nothing going on for a while and see what comes up. I think that is a great way to increase your own creativity.

Creativity & Wellness
We All Could Use an Imaginary Friend
By Jill Badonsky
We humans can invent characters. The world is not only populated with us flesh and blood souls, but it is filled with millions of fictional characters that we both love and hate.

More What's New @ the CP

Craft for Innovation’s Sake
By Cara Faye
After years of focusing on maths and sciences, authorities in our education system are recognizing that increasing programs in and promotion of creative subjects is necessary to unlock our country’s vast potential.

Nothing Kills Creativity Faster than Criticism: Enter the Inner Critic
By Emily Hanlon
You know the Inner Critic is at work when you look at the clock and discover you’ve spent an hour on a single paragraph, worse a single sentence, and the computer screen is mostly blank or the page is so scribbled on and crossed out and torn from erasing, you can’t read it anyway.

Journal Your Inner Character
By Ryan Edel
When you reach a point in your fiction writing that you cannot write more, a moment when you don’t know what your protagonist should do or think, it might be time for a journal entry.

How to Decide What You Really Want
By Susan Ann Darley
Taking the time to connect with your soul — your inner wisdom is the key to deciding and creating what you really want.

Intuitive Painting as a Spiritual Practice
By Chris Zydel
People paint for a lot of different reasons. To relax, to express themselves, to create beauty and meaning, to make money, because they have a passion to create, to gain approval, to stay sane, to make sense of the world, to play and have fun.

“Annie’s Sleepy Bear” Paper Piecing Craft Project
By Annie Lang
If you like paper piecing crafts, then you're going to love Annie's newest adorable "Sleepy Bear" project that can be used as a scrapbook page, gift card or tag, or gift embellishment.

Life Glistens Beauty: Seeking Light Amid Darkness
By Chris Dunmire
Essay and photo writing prompts to accompany the picture and quote on the March 2008 printable Creativity Portal calendar page.