Tapping Creativity

If you have had the opportunity James Joyce's Ulysses , or any of Joyce's works for that matter, one thing that comes to the surfa...

Hi, friends. Been awhile since my last blog post and I thank those of you who waited patiently for my return. While my delay was mainly beca...

George Carlin has passed away of a heart attack at 71-years-old. I mention it here because he was, in my opinion, one of the few creative th...

Sometimes I hear people say, "Karma is going to get that person." Usually it's when someone behaves in an unpleasant or unethi...

As parents, raising our children gives us the opportunity to relive certain parts of our own lives--parts we may have even forgotten about e...

I had a unique experience today. For the first time in my entire working life (16 years to date), I was let go. While I'm still unclear ...

Today's post is a short one, but one that should pay off over and over again. It's about mistakes. We all make them, especially typo...

If you are old enough to remember MacGyver, the first thing that comes to mind is his amazing ability to fashion new devices from just about...

In my last post, I presented an eBook that dealt with ways to stay focused when writing, because writing is, for the most part, a solitary e...

As a thank you to faithful readers of this blog, I'm offering up a free copy of my eBook, The Lonely Writer . This eBook was inspired by...

The nature of creativity is often unpredictable. In some cases, it's easiest to tap creativity when all of the fences are down and your ...

In the second installment of the Random Acts of Creativity series, I'd like to talk about the ways we can use little bits of creativity ...

On this day, we Americans celebrate the life of one of our most renown civic leaders: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was not a president, nor...

This is the first of what will be an ongoing series of short posts that are designed to give your creativity a quick kick in the pants. So, ...

My grandmother passed away from cancer this Tuesday in the early hours. I've been struggling with it. She was my hero. I owe so much of...

So another year brings more resolutions. A big one on my list this year is to do less, but do it better. Like most other creatives I know, t...

Today's post is from Vitor, who keeps an amazing blog called The Fractal Forest , which showcases his thoughts on reality as well as som...

Over at Writing White Papers , Michael Stelzner has put together a great list of the top 10 blogs for writers. Here's a copy of that lis...

Guest post by Vincent Tan of Polymath Programmer . Creativity is like a breeze: fleeting, invisible and just as hard to catch. Some people r...

Much like shaking a lemon tree to break loose ripened fruits in order for them to fall to the ground for “easy pickings”; we can also use th...