Tag Archive: creativity

Simple Ways To Get Your Creativity Flowing

Contributed Post https://unsplash.com/photos/FwF_fKj5tBo As were go through life, we never really want to stagnate in anything. If we’re idling in one place, we can often feel down due to the monotony and boredom of it all. In a lot of cases, if you’re stood still, you may as well be going backward as you’ll be falling behind. Whether it’s mentally, physically or socially, we always want to improve and always want to build on where we are. A significant aspect of our intelligence is our ability to less our creative juices flow and to what it can come up with. Being a hugely creative individual can help a person out in a bunch of ways – professionally and personally. You might think it’s a trait…
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Where You Can Really Flex Those Creative Muscles

Contributed Post There is no time like the present to be a creative is there? In this day and age there are so many opportunities that you can flex those creative muscles. You can have a career based solely on your creativity, in many different formats. You can enjoy hobbies and indulge your spare time in doing the things that you feel passionate about. However, like with so many things in this modern world, there is choice and a lot more than there used to be. This can give you some form of creative block as you wonder where best to enjoy your passion for creating. I wanted to share with you some of the basic principles of creativity and some of the avenues you…
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Your BEST project is always your next one

We abandon our children quickly. Quite quickly indeed. We conceive of them, nurture them, give birth to them, and set them out into the world … and then we turn our backs on them. It’s just one of those things we do. The project I’m always most excited about is the one I’m working on. The one I most want to talk about is the one still in the works. The best thing I’ve ever done? Still to come. Perpetually. Whatever I just did? Not that interested in it. Don’t really want to talk about it, usually don’t have much to say about it. I’m thinking of the NEXT thing. This is problematic, of course, because you’re supposed to promote your latest thing. You’re supposed…
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For 2016, a new short story every month

I’m blessed that writing (sort of)(barely) pays the bills. But one result of taking something you love and turning it into work is that it becomes an obligation rather than an escape. You HAVE to do that if you want to make a living from it, of course — I would have faltered years ago if I didn’t decide that I had to prioritize writing in the same way you do any other job — but you lose a little of what drew you to it in the first place. For me, it was the joy of playing with words; of creating people and situations out of whole cloth; and of looking at a page and saying, “Holy shit, I made that!” These days, I…
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