23
Dec
Following up with goals…one of my goals this year is to start *and* finish, The Artist’s Way course. For those that don’t know, The Artist’s Way is a book by Julia Cameron, but is also a 12 week program to help with recover your creativity from various blocks, including fear, self-doubt, etc. I started the [...]
Tags: blocks, Creativity, The Artist's Way
18
Dec
I’ve found it! We can all reach the top of the Amazon best-seller list. It doesn’t matter what your book is about, it doesn’t even matter if it’s out of print. Click here to see Physicist Dr. John Gribbin discuss his secret. Here’s a link to the original article. Making a list of celebrity targets, [...]
16
Dec
As the famous Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Too true. Every year around this time, people start thinking about goals for the next year. I’m no different. I also usually set new goals every month, hell, every day sometimes. After all, every day [...]
Tags: Goals, Inspiration, Writing
11
Dec
So now that it’s cold out (in the Northern Hemisphere), what better time to curl up with a good book, er device…ok, story. For those of you unfamiliar with Goodreads.com please check it out and friend me! Goodreads.com is a social networking site for bibliophiles. You can find books, review them, even swap them. It’s [...]
10
Dec
And I feel fine? Hmmm…not sure. Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers recently posted a blog article entitled “The End of Book Publishing As We Know It” in which he discusses how the publishing industry is going to have to completely rethink how it does business. He was prompted to write the article after [...]
Tags: E-Books, Technology
8
Dec
Lately, I’ve noticed that there is never enough time. It seems like there’s never enough time for ANYTHING let alone the fun stuff you really WANT to do, that always gets pushed to the bottom of the pile under the stuff you HAVE to do. By the time I get home from work, spend time [...]
Tags: Time Management, Writing
4
Dec
…a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop… Creativity-Portal.com! You thought I was going to say the Twilight Zone, right? Actually, just writing that made me want to go watch a [...]
Tags: Creativity, Fun, Writing Prompts
2
Dec
A few months back, I saw a link for an independent film called “Lemonade.” Here’s the synopsis: More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. [...]
Tags: Inspiration, Lemonade Movie
