Where You Can Really Flex Those Creative Muscles

Where You Can Really Flex Those Creative Muscles

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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…
Love Books? Build Your Own Little Library

Love Books? Build Your Own Little Library

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Contributed Post Libraries are a staple of life. We used them during elementary school days, having lessons inside them with interactive elements. We used them during high school, to try and get our heads down for studying away from distracting things like having a social life. We used them for the same reasons during the college days, and we might have even felt like we lived in one. And as adults, we go back to them for a sense of nostalgia, and to borrow a book we don’t feel like buying every now and then. But it still feels like…
The final stages of writing a book are always the most nerve-wracking

The final stages of writing a book are always the most nerve-wracking

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The last few hundred yards of a marathon are always the toughest. Well, okay, I've never run a marathon and doubt I could run more than a block and a half even if being chased by knife-wielding ducks, but you get my point*. I'm currently under contract with Rowman & Littlefield, and have been neck deep in writing a manuscript since last August, due to be delivered by May 1. (I'd love to be able to announce what it is, but have to wait until they release the information first.) I'm almost there. Being immersed in a big project is…
It’s three years and counting working for myself, and that’s amazing

It’s three years and counting working for myself, and that’s amazing

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Now entering four years. Should have posted something about this in October, but forgot to. In mid-October 2014, I quit my full-time job in marketing to start working for myself. It was a decision I had long pondered. A few years prior, my work situation has changed drastically and suddenly after 13 years with the same company, and while at the time I was blindsided, it was a good thing. Kicked me out of a rut. I had been deeply unhappy and seeking change, and suddenly change was forced on me. It was a blessing. Almost got caught in a…
Battle The Block: 3 Easy Ways To Find Inspiration And Fight Writer’s Block

Battle The Block: 3 Easy Ways To Find Inspiration And Fight Writer’s Block

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Image by Flickr Blink. Blink. Blink. The cursor stares mockingly at you, taunting your creative impotence. The page remains blank and unfilled. How did this happen? You used to be so prolific, so creatively fecund. Your mind was brimming with insightful, fascinating notions that were just begging to be shared with the world. Your mind was a crucible of wit and comprehension that you could once weave expertly into sentences so finely crafted that your literary sleight of hand bedazzled even your discerning sensibilities. But now the well is dry, your mind is barren and the cursor still stares mockingly…