D is for Daydreaming

D is for Daydreaming.   Daydreaming. We all do it. Happens in a nanosecond, probably happened when you clicked on the link opening this blog. So many functions to it too: rehearsing, storing in long term memory, coming up with new ideas. Staving off boredom,...

B- is for being fully present

B- is for being fully present. Be here now. Oh dear. Cliche alert. It's better than my first idea, which was to write about bees. Honeybees, you know, and their mysterious disappearing, something that breaks my heart. But I digress. Yes, I did grow up hippie, and...

When depleted, fill the creative well.

Creativity flows from depth of exposure to sensory input. Let me say that again: creativity flows from depth of exposure to sensory input. Without sounds we’ve known, where would music come from? Without images we’ve seen, colors we’ve boggled at, shapes we’ve felt,...

Creativity: essay #1

What is the creative process? Different for everyone, sure. For me, it’s connected to daydreaming, filling the “creative well” with sensory, auditory and visual experiences, and then making and doing stuff intuitively. Mulling, wandering, chewing a bit of...

7 things I’ve learned about writing

I follow an excellent blog, Guide to Literary Agents, with lots of good articles and such. One of the ongoing articles is “7 things I’ve Learned” and that prompted this blog because, amazingly, everyone’s Things are different. We are all ‘snowflakes’ after all, even...

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