Routines can cause creativity to flourish. They also can destroy it. It all depends on how they’re implemented and managed.
Writing Life
From There to Here: Integrity
in•teg•ri•ty n (15c) 1: an unimpaired condition : SOUNDNESS 2: firm adherence to a code of esp. moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY 3: the quality or state of being complete or undivided : COMPLETENESS syn see HONESTY [Read more…] about From There to Here: Integrity
Who are You Writing for?
Of our greatest acts we are ignorant. You were not aware that you saved my life. – Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
How to Handle Failure
The problems of failure are problems of discouragement, of hopelessness, of hunger. You want everything to happen and you want it now, and things go wrong. – Neil Gaiman, “Make Good Art” [Read more…] about How to Handle Failure
The Blank Page is not Your Friend
We don’t go to the page to make friends. We go to see something other and apart from who we are. – Jodi Angel
Give Away Your Ideas
Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you…The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you’ll become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. – from Paul Arden’s It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be