The gift of insomnia
Last night I had insomnia. This is not all that unusual; as a ‘thinker’ I am unduly burdened by brain processing, and I’d been knocked out all last week by a cold and resulting cold medicine, and last night was the first time I went to bed without chemical help. Even...Gathering Your Writing Team
I’ve been intentional about gathering my teams. I have several: health team, (primary care doctor, dentist, chiropractor, massager, physical therapist and mental health therapist, followed by various specialists as I’ve needed them.) I’ve got a financial team, a home...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,...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...Follow me and receive an email
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