Blog Mistake Number One: Poor Title The best way to keep readers from enjoying your awesome posts is to write a poor title. Your title should engage the reader, build value and provide them with a possible answer to a question they’ve always wanted to know. For instance, you’re reading this post (most likely) simply… Continue reading How to (not) Write a Blog: Biggest Blogging Mistakes
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Living a Better Creative Story
I heard about a guy once who wrote a book about his journey and other things and a lot of his sentences started like I started this one. *** The grammar, incomplete sentences and all the boring (but geekily important) stuff about writing correctly drove me nuts while reading Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in… Continue reading Living a Better Creative Story
Between Start and Finish
Beginning. Middle. End. The basics of story in three words. Actually… the basic plot of life exists in those three words as well. Beginning. Middle. End. So where do we spend most of our time?
Inside Your Creative Brain: One Minute Movie
Creativity, ideation and innovation from the inside out. . . Hollywood style. Do you love getting an idea? What barriers do you have to push through to make the idea a reality?
Creativity and Comfort Zone
Your contribution to this site energizes and inspires. Recently, your fellow creatives wrote several fantastic post-worthy comments in response to a post about creativity and comfort zones (original post and comments here). Here are a few notables… *** From Scrollwork: You asked two questions: Can we create in a comfort zone? Aren’t there ways we MUST be… Continue reading Creativity and Comfort Zone
If Your Real Christmas Tree Could Talk
This isn’t quite what I’d expected, but I’m glad you picked me. I guess I was thinking it would end sooner than this. Ya know, that I’d be in the fireplace by now or whittled into something. Anything but this. How did this all start? With you guys bringing teenaged trees inside your homes and… Continue reading If Your Real Christmas Tree Could Talk
“In This Corner…” Creativity and The Opponent
Making it all Hollywood style today. . . Do you ever feel like this when you’re seeking to create? How do you overcome?
Write a Love Letter to a Grocery Store
As Madonna once said “express yourself.” Even if you don’t like Madonna, sometimes you just gotta write a love letter. It doesn’t matter to whom. It doesn’t matter the content. It doesn’t matter the status of the relationship. Surely there’s something or someone or someplace or some that you… Continue reading Write a Love Letter to a Grocery Store
The Writer’s Toolbox, an Exercise in Creative Bravery
My wife, ever the cheerleader (thanks babies!), bought me a wonderful gift that I didn’t bother to even open. How rude. Yes, but the time had to be right. Tonight’s the night!The gift, The Writer’s Toolbox, by Jamie Cat Callan, is both a book(let) and several simple inspiring exercises to get the brain jogging into… Continue reading The Writer’s Toolbox, an Exercise in Creative Bravery
To Write, Not to Write?
No one wants to read a blog post when a person is just writing to write a blog post. Right now, that person might (just might) be me. I have nothing to say, therefore, I am done. So many people have something to say, and no physical voice to say it. Like Roger Ebert. Sarah… Continue reading To Write, Not to Write?