Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Original Deck
Years ago, I made a deck of creativity prompt cards for myself – 75 prompts that propelled me into a more expansive space for finding solutions. I formatted them in Excel, printed them on card stock, and cut them out by hand.
Months later, I put them to the test. I wanted to write [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
We think we can’t see. We think we are blind. We think we are looking at something tiny and limiting and there’s nothing there.
But the world is chock full of tricks. The eye, the mind, the spirit, expand and contract depending on how we look and where we look and what we want to see.
Before [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The process of writing is a tool. It serves us, not the other way around. There’s something wrong when struggling with the writing process keeps people’s marvellous thoughts and much-needed wisdom from reaching the rest of us.
To make the writing process easier, to shift the focus from how to write to what to say, don’t [...]