Are You Digging Up the Thought-Kernels You have Mentally Planted?

Summer is in full swing. Baseball races are heating up. Summer annuals are in full bloom. Farmers Markets are showcasing fresh fruits and vegetables. These same fruits and vegetables were only seeds just a few short months ago. And what has happened to the seed-thoughts you have planted? Did you let them grow or did you dig them up to see if they took?

Writing For Children Part 2

Ask the children in your life what works for them, what they love about the books they have, what they don't like, what scares them, what makes them feel good, makes them laugh, which parts make them tingle.

Writing For Children Part 3

It smells like chocolate. Now get nosey.

Kickstart YOUR Creativity - 3 Powerful Tips to Banish Writer's Block

Every kind of writing requires creativity: technical writing, commercial or business writing, web content writing, blogging, emails to friends, thank you notes to great-aunt Nattie. Here's how to tap into your creativity (which is always available) and successfully write anything you want!

Creativity in Crisis? 5 Gentle Ways to Get Your Creativity Flowing Again

All of us who create go through phases of feeling blocked, stuck or uninspired. If we don’t create for a while, whether it’s 10 hours or 10 years, it’s easy to soon get caught up in negative mental cycles and paralyse our creativity further. So here are 5 gentle steps to get your creativity flowing again:

Chorally Challenged

I want to sing clear and true. I suppose part of me wants to be the one about whom the others say, 'stand next to her, she really knows what she’s doing'. This throws up for me an issue I come across all the time in my work with clients. 'I'm not good enough.' It seems like we’re all just waiting for that moment when we’re exposed as frauds.

Sunshine and Showers? Why Your Creative Life Needn't be as Unpredictable as the Weather

Stop for a moment and think about how you might describe your creativity right now if it was a type of weather. Would it be sunny clear blue skies? Scattered showers? Constantly murky cold and overcast? Blizzard conditions?! Whatever the current “weather conditions” in your creative life, they needn’t be permanent. We all have the ability to change how we react and the direction we’re heading in at any time.

How Artists Can Avoid 'Writer's Block' - What Shall I Paint?

How can aspiring painters develop their own style and generate the enthusiasm to keep them going for a lifetime of making Art? One decision can make a powerful difference.

How One Invention Idea Can Change Your Life Forever

Most famous inventors have done it with a single invention or a single idea. Actually that is all it takes - just one really good idea - to change your life forever!

Super Charge Your Creative Mind - Think Tank Topics and Titles

For those folks who have set up impromptu think tanks and they wish to expand their horizons then they will need to perhaps consider more potential topics. Think tank topics and titles are not easy to come up with. In fact categorizing thought is often inhibited do to the linear selection of subjects and this makes it hard to discuss new ideas, when the group is stuck discussing all the former topics.

Rewarding Your Creativity

Are you a creative person? Do you get paid to create? Do friends simply look at you in awe sometimes and wonder how on Earth you are able to do it? Are you rewarding your creativity? If not you should and let me tell you why.

Creativity Flow Rates

What is your creative flow rate? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Being a creative person is not easy especially when you use your creativity to do your projects, your profession or your hobby and you put your self on a timetable.

Creativity and Full Court Press; Thinking Under Pressure

Too much stress on a creative soul and some creative people just go haywire and cannot seem to keep it going. So, lets discuss Creativity and Full Court Press and the theory of Thinking Under Pressure. Perhaps you have noticed a very creative people cannot seem to do their work when there's a lot of people and commotion around.