Category: creativity
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A Christmas Carol Stave 1 : Marley’s Ghost
Keeping with my tradition of reading Christmas stories, this year I’m doing A Christmas Carol. Of course, even Dickens’ oral manuscript that he modified original is still pretty dang long, so I’m going to have to break this sucker up into its component staves. (It’s a carol, remember?) Here’s A Christmas Carol stave 1, Marley’s Ghost. Marley’s ghost always…
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Art History : it’s a method, not a subject
Today’s encouragement for all of you artists is a weird one, but a good one if you take a couple of moments to reflect with me on art history and change. We will compare two quotes—one is a poem and one comes from a philosophical work. Then in the comments, we’ll reflect on how these two are linked.…
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CASTING CALL :: Joplin, MO Film Shoot
:: CASTING CALL :: Production title: Untitled Heist / Adventure Union / Non-Union: Non-Union Posted: Friday, November 25th, 2014 Production location: JOPLIN, MO Company: …
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New Free Stories from Conference Readings
For the convenience of my fellow conference attendees, I added the stories that I read during the Bedtime Stories reading series.
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Giving Back to Writer UnBoxed: Cold Brewed for $0.99
To give back and pay it forward, I’ve made Cold Brewed available for $0.99 from now until Friday.
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How to be Creative, Even if You’re Not
because we’re all in the process of reshaping the world around us, we’re all “creative” – we’re all makers. Legislators make order. Lawyers make cases. Chemists make cures.
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Fairytale Photographer for Kids :: The Chicken Steeper
A STORY NO ONE CAN DUPLICATE… Remember our custom-made fairytale photographer? In Mark’s words: The thought was simple: a series that caters fairy stories to the personality of your child. We’d tell each stories using words and photographs, just like we did with Cold Brewed. This isn’t something I’ve seen done before… and I’m all about trying…
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50 Reads for Writers
Often I get questions like: If you didn’t go to school for writing, how did you learn? How do I improve as an editor? Are there any good books out there for writers? What’s wrong with this story? …among others. A long while back I shared twenty-three books. I’ve since expanded that list to a nice, round fifty. If…
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The Haven Foundation for Artists
If you make a living full-time off of the arts and have been struck by a debilitating tragedy (or if you fear such an event) you might want to check out The Haven Foundation. The Foundation was formed by Stephen King in order to help artists. In his words: In the summer of 1999, I was struck…
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Make Good Art Speech by Gaiman
I’d reserved the Make Good Art speech for an upcoming post called 50 Reads for Writers. But I don’t want it to get lost in the noise. So even though I’ll share the video once more in a future post, I’m posting it here separately. If you haven’t seen or read Gaiman’s Make Good Art speech, you should probably…