Hope that you had a chance to play with last week’s exercise. As my week went along, I found that my creative juices were beginning to flow. Sometimes just getting started helps move us forward. I ended up creating a YouTube video. It is pretty bad – but creating and posting it got me over […]
Rebooting Creativity
Creativity is something many folks think occurs in some magical way. The artist/crafter/creator gets some sort of visionary impulse that propels them unwaveringly toward their (typically fully internally realized) masterpiece. Maybe once in awhile – mostly in the movies and in books – but creativity typically expresses itself through practice and exposure. Like any “muscle”, […]
Business Change-Up
First, let me say that I love Grammarly. It definitely saves me time in terms of the “mechanics” of writing. If you write a lot – or have kiddos who do, I urge you to look into it. They have free and paid options. I get no kickback for this – I just like to […]
Tom Wolfe
I was saddened to hear about Tom Wolfe’s passing this week (May 14). The world has lost a uniquely insightful man. While Tom Wolfe’s fiction was wildly popular, and his many articles were amusing, frustrating, and thought-provoking (often all of these), it is his small tome “The Painted Word” that rocked my world the most. […]