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Lessons on Writing Dialogue from a Memoirist
Showing my appreciation for the blog love I’m finding post-publication of Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road… My blog tour following the publication of Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road...
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Guest Post: Reliving Trauma through the Creative Process
Let me begin with a teaser for next week: I’m working on a post about creativity lessons we can learn from the newest winners of the President’s National Medal of Technology and Innovation. I had the...
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When Great Inventors Encourage Future Innovators
I knew when attending the White House ceremony for the latest class of National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI) winners a week before Thanksgiving that I would have to blog on the...
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Creative Wisdom from COMMITTED Creatives
I shared a photo taken from my cross-country road trip with The Loft for my latest guest post there. Here’s another one. Long before Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road was published, I had been...
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ICYMI: A Collection of Creativity Clips
An image from my 2010 cross-country road trip and an excerpt from Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road I didn’t share on Melissa Crytzer Fry’s What I Saw blog, from the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake...
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An Author Interview on Creative Inspiration and the Writing Craft
My infamous whiteboard wall is mentioned yet again in this interview… I’m honored to have been interviewed by memoir author Kathleen Pooler on her excellent website/blog, Memoir Writer’s Journey. I...
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Is Creativity Best Fostered Alone, in Pairs, or in Groups?
Collaborative teams spark the most powerful creativity. So Walter Isaacson tells us, repeatedly, in The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. The power...
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When Your Art-Committed Life is at Low Tide
Boise, Idaho, home of singer/songwriter Rochelle Smith, one of the artists whose wisdom is shared in my post on Melissa Cronin’s blog. For more than four years I’ve blogged here about the “challenges...
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How To Put Your Whole Brain to Work
The last time I was in Sarasota, Florida, I was on a business trip attending a conference at the Ritz Carlton; here’s a view from my room’s balcony. This time I’ll be crashing at the home of one of the...
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5 Traits of Creativity Geeks
The three day conference wrapped up for me Sunday afternoon with a reading of Committed at a local art gallery. That evening I finally made it to the beach. The timing was perfect: Mere days before...
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