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More Creatives With Multiple Talents
She is best known as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” but the late silver screen star Hedy Lamarr is remembered in some circles more for the inventive genius she brought to wireless...
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When Creatives Give Back
As I struggled with learning how to put myself on the written page, I asked my Vermont College of Fine Arts instructor Sue William Silverman how she found the courage to share her trauma as a childhood...
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5 Blog Posts that Keep Readers Coming Back
One common misconception I find many of my Loft blogging students have is that they believe their blog is like a book written in real time, with each chapter building upon the last. I have to point out...
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The Artist’s Road Memoir will be Published this Fall
So it’s official. I’ve signed with an enterprising independent publisher and my memoir–four years after I first started working on it–will be published this October. So many readers of The Artist’s...
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Road to Publication: Killing Your Babies Part Two
A memoirist always runs the risk of offending the living when capturing them in prose. But he also runs the risk of offending them by omission. In Part One of this series I discussed how I have reduced...
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5 Creativity Lessons from Hall of Fame Inventors
What are some secrets of truly creative thinking? Who better to ask than Hall of Fame inventors? That’s exactly what I did last month when I was able to speak with several 2014 inductees into the...
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7 Signs You Have a Creative Brain
What is it that sets a creative thinker apart from the everyday individual? My obsession with that question led me to drive across the United States so I could interview artists about their creativity;...
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Road to Publication: Marketing without Selling
It’s about the author, not the book. That is one promotion strategy for a publisher, particularly in the memoir genre, the category for my forthcoming book Committed. So it is with a combination of...
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Road to Publication: When the Memoir Goes Meta
What do I mean by a memoir going “meta”? When the book itself is part of the story, and when the process of bringing the book to publication is also the story. (Teaser: I’m going to ask you to vote on...
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Here’s to Creatives Who Work a Day Job
Very few creatives completely support themselves financially through their art. It is those who struggle to find the time and creative energy to produce while managing other work responsibilities that...
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Road to Publication: Committed Now Available for Pre-Order (at Discount!)
So it’s starting to become real. Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road is now available for pre-order. Even better, my publisher is offering a 10% discount to Artist’s Road readers; they just need...
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Road to Publication: The Story Comes Full Circle
So Committed: A Memoir of the Artist’s Road features dozens of artists I interviewed on a 2010 cross-country road trip. Last week one of those artists interviewed me for a podcast on her Boise, Idaho,...
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Want to Think Creatively? Put Down the Joint
Using marijuana will almost certainly give you the munchies, but it will likely not give your brain a creative boost. So say researchers in an article in the journal Psychopharmacology as reported by...
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3 Steps to Finding Work-Life-Creative Life Balance
We hear a lot in today’s world about work-life balance. Often we hear it from employers who tell us what a high management priority it is and then hire supervisors who daily act in ways counter to that...
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Liberating Your Book From the Sculpting Stone
Since Elizabeth Spann Craig lives in North Carolina, I’m including a photo I took there on my cross-country road trip. This is the modest view George Vanderbilt had of the Asheville countryside at his...
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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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