creativity

A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Giving What You Love

December 12, 2011

This week’s journaling prompts are inspired by Courtney Martin’s post, Give What You Love: Creative Microphilanthropy Advice, in Good Magazine’s online news page. I enjoy the magazine because it focuses on positive news, rather than the negative stuff—a refreshing change from the mainstream media focus. Anyway, besides the great coined word, microphilanthropy, which implies that [...]

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Blogtalk: Balancing Creativity and the Digital Life

August 5, 2011

We writers have a tendency to grouse about how difficult it is to stay focused. We distract ourselves with email, FaceBook, Twitter, and phone texts — all in the name of “social networking” — and then we complain about it. Ben Brooks posted a thoughtful article about the importance of taking responsibility for our Digital [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Expanding Creativity

April 18, 2011

Everyone is born creative — it’s human nature. As we grow and become socialized, we learn that “creative” is generally a word used to describe artists and musicians and craftspersons. People with “talent.” Probably not us. At some point during our lives, though, we discover that creativity is a much broader concept. It’s about doing [...]

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Why Write? Exercise Creativity

November 30, 2010

Inside each of us is a deep well of creative energy, and writing is one way to pump this creativity to the surface. For example, we can use writing prompts to give our imagination a workout, for fun, or as exercises to warm up to our intended writing tasks. Once ideas begin to flow, they [...]

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Sensory Details: Handwriting Trains the Brain

November 9, 2010

GIVEN my preference for journaling and writing on the computer rather than writing by hand, I thought a recent Wall Street Journal article, “How Handwriting Trains the Brain” (10/5/2010), was interesting. The gist of the article was that the practice of handwriting improves the ability to develop and express ideas. The study was conducted with [...]

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Blogtalk: Beginner’s Mind

July 8, 2010

WHAT would it be like to forget all that we think we know and approach each task, each day, with the mindset of a beginner? The question comes to me after reading Susan Ideus’s blog post titled “The Time Has Come.” For Susan, it’s all about how to approach a new lifestyle — that of [...]

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Writing Tips: 5 Ways to Overrule Your Inner Editor

July 6, 2010

HAVE YOU EVER had a great story idea and started writing, only to get stuck editing the first page over and over? Maybe you were even writing in your private journal and found yourself editing your writing, though no one but you would ever read it. If you have an active inner editor and critic, [...]

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