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Magic in Story Writing

MAGIC IN STORY WRITING “If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula...

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“Life Upon the Stage”

Filed under: actor, poster, quotation, shakespeare, thought provoking, words, writer, writing Tagged: life upon the stage, macbeth, play, poster, quotation, Sept 21 2015, shakespeare

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The Free Exploring Mind

THE FREE EXPLORING MIND “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take...

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Charlie Chaplin’s Love Yourself Manifesto

Charlie Chaplin’s poem “As I Began to Love Myself” Poster Created by Mind ValleyFiled under: a writer's word, actor, philosophy, poetic, poster, thought provoking, thoughts, writer, writing Tagged: "As...

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Stephen King on Writing

Stephen King on Writing and Wakeful Dreaming “In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of...

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Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity – Part Two

Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security,...

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Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity – Part Three

Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity Hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate....

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Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity – Part Four

Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people...

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Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity – Part Five

Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity As we live, we begin to discover what helps in life and what hurts, and our characters act this out...

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Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity – Part Six

Bird by Bird: Anne Lamott’s Timeless Advice on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where...

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