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.
National Alpaca Farm Days took place this past weekend — an event I immediately put on my calendar earlier this month after seeing a TV commercial promoting the event with cute, Seuss-like smiling animals. More »
Fall Tree
Remember my animated Nit Wits tree from a few weeks ago? I forgot to share the details on how I created it. The animated story »
All Write: A Halloween Story Contest! Submission Deadline: October 10, 2008
Do you have a scary or funny childhood Halloween memory you'd like to share with the world? If so, submit your unpublished Halloween stories to Creativity Portal's first ever Halloween Story Contest for a chance to win cool prizes and be published and promoted on our Web site.
Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
Adventure Series Photo Writing Prompts Adventure into South Africa Photo Writing Prompts By Kristi Tencarre
Picture gazing up at the crooked neck of a calm looking giraffe eating leaves from the tips of acacia trees, watching the seemingly docile hippo wading in the water, sunburned back turning pink.
Creativity Cookies Rocky Road Reward By Dan Goodwin
Recognise and reward the progress you’re making using a "Creative Landmarks" chart.
Multicultural Muses The Chaotic Muse By Molly Anderson-Childers
Better to learn to create in the midst of Chaos; let it feed your work, and teach you the hard lessons it has to teach.
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Writing a Book as a Quest By Naomi Rose
Once you hear the word “quest,” you know you are in a different realm than the recitation of facts, or the laying out of already-known answers. You are in the realm of spirit and soul.
Creating and Fear By Barbara Bowen
In the creative process, fear is inescapable. We meet various shades of fear upon entering any unfamiliar territory.
Tangled Mess to Meditation By Jill Allison Bryan
Thich Nhat Hanh, respected Zen master, said that any task performed with focus and love can serve as a meditation.
In the Sane Asylum, I Was an African Queen By Rita Farin
It was a Saturday morning in the Candler Park neighborhood of Atlanta. We were in Joan Toder’s expressive movement class, which she calls Dance Meditation.
