I have been reading and writing. Reading way more than writing, which is something, I guess. Things I read this past week: You should drink […]
HTBAA - Get Lost
Avoid lingering on the well-worn path; you don’t want to be a minor example of someone else’s major style or idea. Jerry Saltz, How to […]
HTBAA – Develop Forms of Practice
Whenever you have an odd moment – over your morning coffee, as you’re riding the subway, while sitting in the dentist’s waiting room – practice… […]
HTBAA – Cast Your Nets into the Waters
You are probing for ideas even if you don’t know what you’re hoping to find. Anything goes. Jerry Saltz, How to be an artist I […]
Writing Prompt Wednesday (WPW) – Exasperation
Exasperation – state of being irritated or extremely annoyed I was irritated and extremely annoyed with how my life had been one big exercise in […]
Creative Process Update – 07 DEC 2021
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Twyla Tharp I have been underwhelmed by my work habits. […]
HTBAA – Recognize Convention – and Resist Constraint
Convention can be good or bad; used consciously and inventively, it can be beautiful. But conventions are limits, and limits should be recognized for what […]
I’ve always been impossible
When I was in grade 7, I drifted by a cultural documentary on PBS. The clouds of my tweenaged despair parted. I was enlightened. I […]
How to care for and tend to your extrovert
I am an EXTRAvert. I am out there and large in myself in like 80% of what I do. Spending time by myself advances my […]
Writing prompt Wednesday – I had heard his excuses before, thousands of times, but this time I was sick of them.
Thousands of times might be hyperbolic. Tens of times, sure. Way less than a hundred, I’m certain. But the excuses were never real reasons. They […]