Creativity
Keywords.
Sunday, November 16th, 2008I have been thinking about keywords lately. Keywords need to be those that most people would think of when searching the Internet for a site of interest. If you doing anything online you would be placing the keywords instead anything [...]
Take a Creative Break
Thursday, November 13th, 2008There is a helpful suggestion when sitting at your desk for a long time to get up and stretch. The muscles come to life. Your blood begins to pulse a little faster, the brain cells fire up.You may not even have released how stiff you had become until you make that first move.
Your creative life [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Use Life as a Springboard for Creativity
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Keep your goals in the closet for one month.
Use life as a springboard for creativity — Collect writing ideas from your daily interactions. Listen to conversations on the bank line, or a restaurant. Write a one page play on what you heard. Keep your eyes open for interesting details. As an example, the local church [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Go Look at Artwork
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Museum hop - Go look at some artwork. Immerse yourself in color, images and the inspiration of the artist. Think what drove that artist to produce that particular piece of art. View different types of artwork. If you are classicist then see some surreal art. Or if you are avant-garde then spend time looking at [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Creating Your Own “Tabloid” Story
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008In her essay Bad Writing, Julia Cameron gives us writers the task of going out and buying the tabloids we usually read secretively on the supermarket line. Julia suggests looking over some of favorite titles and creating your own “tabloid” story. “Alien baby is my love child”, “8,000 year old man found buried alive in [...]
Use Your Voice
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Don’t be afraid to use your voice. It is one instrument that you can use whenever you want. I have been doing lots of research on podcasting, recording short podcasts with my friend Phyllis. She has years of media training and exposure and her voice is quite distinct from my own. I am confident my voice will [...]