Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide? A TedTalk Video
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know. I’m learning to love video and would love...
by Beth Barany · Published January 16, 2011 · Last modified February 23, 2016
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know. I’m learning to love video and would love...
by Beth Barany · Published January 7, 2011 · Last modified October 18, 2013
Authenticity. Be myself — everyone else is taken. Vulnerability is my strength. Words to live by. Words to feel. Words to fight. Conflict. External conflict. I’m not great at external conflict in my novels...
Author Career / Other Sites on Creativity & Writing Support
by Beth Barany · Published May 22, 2009 · Last modified May 17, 2009
This post is part of the wider vision of Writer’s Fun Zone: to share awesome, kick-ass content for the content creator. That’s us! Enjoy! Reprinted with kind permission by Writers of the Round Table: First posted there 17 Apr 2009 05:10 AM PDT As artists we have to create significant buy in from audiences and from those who can hire us for our services–that’s how we get paid for our work. We do that through inviting them into our world – which we do through story… Every single person we run into can fall into one of these two categories:
I’m so happy to be surrounded by fun writing specialists who have unique takes on one of my favorite subjects, Procrastination. This post hails from Carrie Jaffe-Pickett, a Bay Area writer, editor and communications specialist. She may not realize it, but she’s a teacher too! Here’s her fabulous post on the writer’s least favorite friend*, Procrastination. (* The title isn’t a typo but a playful way to reframe procrastination. But that’s another story.)
Jill Badonsky is an artist, humorist, nationally recognized seminar leader, and creativity consultant. And she wrote this fun book! So, I just had to ask her some questions about it because, well, the book looked like fun. Here’s what she had to say…
Are you ready to deepen your commitment to your writing? Do you write or want to write novels, a memoir, or a nonfiction book? Are you ready to deepen your commitment to writing, to your writing self, to the story you want to tell? Are you ready to be a warrior for yourself, act on your creativity, and announce to yourself and others that you are creative?
Research and Development / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published October 3, 2008 · Last modified January 8, 2009
According to a recent New York Times article, we’re able to approach problems with a renewed perspective after some sleep. Yeah! I’m so glad that science is catching up to what artists have always...
Free up Brain Space Contrary to the niggling worry that you are wasting your time, your freedom at the flash writing stage actually releases the static of worry. Because you’re clearing out the debris...
The act of writing generates ideas, emotions, thoughts, feelings and images that tug at your heart and rouse you to laugh, cry, shout, or sing. And to vision. Though you may not know why...
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