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The Writing Life: What Hemingway Can Teach You About Professional Loneliness

By Charity Singleton Craig 31 Comments

Hemingway Professional Loneliness

Working from home has its perks, but can also have its downside, like professional loneliness. Charity Singleton Craig—and Hemingway—have thoughts on that.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, writer's group resources, Writing Business Tips, Writing Life

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top 10 Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Sheep from the Back Fun Photo Poetic Picks

Walking makes you creative, reading makes you happy, publishing makes you tense and Harper Lee makes you appreciate a good editor. It’s our Top 10 Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Creativity Inside the Box: The Freedom of Constraint

By Charity Singleton Craig 12 Comments

Creativity inside the box blue park benches

Would imposing constraints help or hinder your creativity? Charity Singleton Craig explores both sides of working inside and thinking outside the box.

Filed Under: Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

Top Ten Poetic Picks

Former teen poet becomes President. Poetry is dead, again? Elastic ekphrastics and the challenges of diversity in publishing. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry

A More Beautiful Question: Taking the Brain Off High Alert

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

A More Beautiful Question Book Club (2)

What if we took our brains off ‘high alert’ and thought long enough to develop an original idea? Our discussion of A More Beautiful Question concludes today.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, Blog, book club, Creativity

The Best in Poetry: This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

the best in poetry

Writing conferences pert’near South Dakota, making carrots into clarinets, art you can’t see unless it’s raining. It has to be our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

A More Beautiful Question: Improving the Questions We Ask

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

A More Beautiful Question book club

In this week’s book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question, ‘ we consider how to improve our questions before we jump to answer them.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, Blog, book club, Creativity

A More Beautiful Question: What If You Sleep On It? (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 16 Comments

A More Beautiful Question

Think you can do your work in your sleep? Warren Berger suggests that we might do our best creative thinking when we’re asleep. Join us for our A More Beautiful Question book club discussion.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Creativity

A More Beautiful Question: Thinking in Questions (Book Club)

By Will Willingham 27 Comments

a more beautiful question

What if we didn’t stop asking questions when we got to a certain age? Join us in our first installment of the A More Beautiful Question book club.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Books, Creativity

Book Club: A More Beautiful Question

By Will Willingham 26 Comments

A More Beautiful Question

Join us for our next book club discussion of Warren Berger’s ‘A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas’ considering how asking beautiful questions like Why, What If, and How can help us move forward in our businesses and personal lives, our writing, and our creative endeavors.

Filed Under: A More Beautiful Question, book club, Books, Creativity

The Best in Poetry: Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

the best in poetry

Writing your way to a better life, Langston doodles, literary restaurant reviews and becoming mermaids. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Creativity, poetry, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Become a Better Writer: I Am Not a Robot

By Charity Singleton Craig 44 Comments

become a better writer not a robot

In this look at automation in creative work, Charity Singleton Craig ponders how being like a robot can help you become a better writer, and whether she should plan a career shift toward being personal assistant to a robot.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

The Magician’s Elephant: What if Natural Selection is Wrong?

By L.L. Barkat 30 Comments

The Magician's Elephant Kate DiCamillo Natural Selection Wrong

Iconoclastic thinking requires “thinking outside the room.” Could natural selection be wrong? Kate DiCamillo’s The Magician’s Elephant leads the way.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Incidentally

Top 10 Tips for a Summer Staycation

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

top ten staycation tips

You deserve a vacation. And we say you should give yourself one. Only don’t leave home. Try these ten tips for a great summer staycation.

Filed Under: Creativity, Top 10 Poetic Picks

How to Become a Better Writer: Bike Store Artist Date

By Kathryn Neel 2 Comments

Become a better writer and open your creativity with an Artist Date in the showroom of a Daytona Beach bike shop.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity

Poetry and Photo Prompts: Spanish Lace Photo Play

By Heather Eure 42 Comments

Lace photo prompts

Photographs can have a poetic voice. With photography as in poetry, sometimes what isn’t said is just as important as what is. Join us for our latest Photo Play prompt, finding lace in nature, and letting it tell us what isn’t said.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Lace Poems, Photo Play, Photography prompts, Spanish Lace, Themed Writing Projects

Image-ine Poetry: “Jumprope, Pink Room” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 29 Comments

Image-ine Exercise write poetry jumprope pink room

Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, ponder children and a jump rope with poet Maureen Doallas and artist Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

Filed Under: Blog, Childhood Poems, Creativity, Image-ine, poetry

This Month’s Top Ten Poetic Picks

By Will Willingham 3 Comments

top ten poetry picks

The worst state to borrow books for fictional children, what memoir is not, revising everything from poetry to the NSA. It’s our Top Ten Poetic Picks.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Creativity, poetry, Poetry at Work, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Be Bold! Your Creativity Needs It

By Claire Haidar 40 Comments

bold creativity claire burge

Questioning and boldness are essential parts of your journey into greater creativity. Claire Burge challenges you to develop these skills.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Poets and Writers Toolkit

Image-ine Poetry: “Hot Sky” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 21 Comments

Image-ine Hot Sky Lisa Hess Hesselgrave Maureen Doallas

Join Maureen Doallas in this Image-ine Poetry creative writing exercise based on “Hot Sky, ” a painting by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Image-ine

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