Creative Process

Are You Trading Now For Then?

Ben Michaelis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.04.2012

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The anxiety of indecision and indecision of anxiety is far more cumbersome to your spirit than the process of revising, reworking, and rebuilding.

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7 Steps to Take Now to Increase Your Creative Output

Amy Neumann | Posted 04.30.2012

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What lies beneath the commitment to create? How can we position ourselves in ways that elevate our work?

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Three Tips for a Career in Creativity, From Multidisciplinary Artist Lisa Ferber

John Sanchez | Posted 05.21.2012

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Lisa Ferber, a New York City artist, shares three tips for staying prolific and successful in launching and sustaining an artistic career.

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The Grave Dangers of Inspiration

Misha Lyuve | Posted 05.18.2012

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From ART BEAUTY LIFE blog. In this short essay I would like to warn you of dangers of inspiration. After suffering for over a week without inspirat...

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Why It Is Vital To Find Your Voice

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 08.15.2011

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Take a gander at the creative process and how it works to transform your heart's desire into concrete reality. Who can't use that these days?

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Nine Ways to Screw Up Your Creative Mojo

Mary Beth Maziarz | Posted 08.02.2011

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Talk a lot and don't do anything. Rattle on to people who won't challenge you to act on your ideas. Regularly pepper your language with long lists of excuses, and shut down offers of help or suggestions for solutions.

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WATCH: How To Make A Monster With Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro

Posted 05.25.2011

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It's only Tuesday and already we've already featured several real-life horror stories on the Arts page, with the unfolding story of the Egyptian Museu...

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BLOGWATCH> Beck's Record Club Writes and Records Albums In 24 Hours

Beck's Record Club | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creative Process, Pop Music, Os Mutantes, Feist, Beck, Wilco, Los Angeles Music, Thurston Moore, Music, Music News, Record Club, Sonic Youth, Arts News

Beck and a cast of musicians gather and record an album in a day, and the videos are rough, and unrehearsed, and sometimes incredible....

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Finding Your Inner Artist

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 11.17.2011

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Creating is delightful, fun and calming. It is spiritual, healing and transformative. Finding your creativity will help your physical health as well as make you a kinder, more generous person.

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Writer Wednesday: The Writer's Brain Is Soup And 10 Unbreakable Research Rules

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Recipe for Illusion: Memory, Imagination, Research by George Rabasa Excerpted from "Views from the Loft: A Portable Writer's Workshop" Look int...

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The Aesthetics of Play

Dylan Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011

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How many opportunities do we, as adults, have to play during each day? What would our world look like if we filled our lives with more joyful, play-rich aesthetic experiences?

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Creativity Analyzed: Psychology of the Artist

Pythia Peay | Posted 11.17.2011

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A conversation with Jungian analyst Larry Staples on the psychology of creativity, and it's shadows: sin, guilt and anxiety.

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The Creative Process

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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People like to perpetuate the idea of creativity as a result of divine inspiration followed by a burst of manic, late-night work, completed in a garret during a thunderstorm. But it's less poetic than that.

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Declaring Your Artistic Self

Tamsin Rothschild | Posted 11.17.2011

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I believe we are all artists. I cringe and want to shake people when I hear them lament: "I am not creative", "I do not have a creative bone in my body." This is so desperately untrue.

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The Artist, The Exhibitionist And Blogger Emily Gould

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

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What fascinated me most about the New York Times Emily Gould piece was the x-ray view inside the mind of someone who craves the attention of strangers.

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