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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Creativity Prompt | 98

Reverse something. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 62 ~ Pep Talk | Rinse, Repeat

Creativity Prompt | 97

What do you regret? Make amends. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 50 ~ Book | How to Live with an Idiot

Creativity Prompt | 96

Pretend you’re taking a once-in-a-lifetime, expensive course. Specify your assignment. Earn an A. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 54 ~ Pep Talk | Think

Creativity Prompt | 95

Stop procrastinating. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 56 ~ Pep Talk | Wing It

Living with Questions

“In a field I am the absence of field.” ~ Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole, Reasons for Moving… A question is like an empty space. We ask. We wait. We wonder. We make room. We stop resisting. In the process, by creating a nothing with a curling, spiraling question mark at its heart, we fall […]

Creativity Prompt | 94

Imagine you’re a mad scientist with crazy hair and a maniacal cackle. What scheme are you cooking up? ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 47 ~ Narrative Medicine

Creativity Prompt | 93

Use your least-used hand to write out possible solutions. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 6 ~ Ode to the Curiously Mundane Office

Pep Talk | Do Right

There’s that moment in which you do the wrong thing because it feels good. And then there are all the moments afterwards when you remember what you did. Yuck. There’s that moment in which you do the right thing, even though it hurts. And then there are all the moments afterwards when you benefit from […]

Creativity Prompt | 92

Follow your curiosity. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 34 ~ Collage Vision Boards

Digital Art Programs by Kevin

In my constant quest for creativity with a wow-factor, I followed a Flickr photo search to the discovery of Kevin, a man of inspiring creativity, humility, and generosity. Among other things, Kevin created a couple of digital art freeware programs – VEXER (left picture) and Agony (right picture). I’ve played around some with VEXER, which […]

Creativity Prompt | 91

Discuss the issue using ridiculously silly accents, even if you are alone. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 3 ~ Play Anyway

Creativity Prompt | 90

Ask the one question you’ve been the most afraid to ask. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 46 ~ The High Demand for Sensitivity

Creativity Prompt | 89

Explore solutions that require collaboration with weird but interesting people. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 35 ~ Book | Tim Moore’s Travel Writing

A Moment of Silence, Please

When I talk with highly sensitive people, I’m often struck by the length of their pauses before speaking. If their brains are like mine, what’s going on is an intense sorting of all the possibilities, scanning and deciding which of the many things that could be said will be said. Sure, I love the banter […]

Creativity Prompt | 88

Clarify the questions. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 4 ~ Pep Talk | Zero In