Tag: creativity


Writer’s Block Thoughts

A brief reflection on writer’s block. Knowing the direction you want that short story to take but being unable to find the words that take it from design to finished product.   “The wild animal of creativity, released from its cage, paces up and down in my head. It skulks around in my thoughts and dreams, seeking my mind for prey, my heart to devour. Inner animal essence...

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Creationspiration Thoughts

INSPIRATION   “Do you get inspired by art that is an unformed image inside an artist’s head? By music that is a swirl of notes assembling over the rhythms of the soul? By poetry that is a reflection of the flawed human spirit coming in to focus? Do you have a desire to create things that have never been created before? To see new colours?...

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Empty Page Euphoria Thoughts and Essays

Yesterday I tweeted that I was sitting in a café with an empty notebook, a pen and a skinny latte seeking inspiration for a short story. A few moments later I experienced one of those eureka moments, a “light in the dark” epiphany, as I took to task the ailing brain that was refusing all reasonable requests to cooperate with my need for creativity. I...

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You Have Just Landed Miscellaneous

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! You have just touched down on the building site that is Cre8ivation city. It’s great to see you here and I hope you had a pleasant flight with little turbulence and no air rage. Things are heating up slowly here in the city and you should find the temperature bearable- for now at least. So what do you have in store for your...

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