“Hatching an idea is a lot like baking bread. An idea needs to rise. If you poke at it too much at the beginning, if you keep checking on...

In 2007 I took a poetry writing course at the Omega Institute for Holistic Health in Rhinebeck, New York. My key takeaway from that...

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something–anything–down on...

“In the ballroom at the Airport Sheraton Hotel, a team of men and women sit inside separate booths, curtained off from each other. They...

German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke tells us: “This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?...

One day in 2013, after a collage-making frenzy, I looked about my apartment at the tornado of art supplies and considered putting order...

A year-long journey in Expressive Arts Training in 2011 helped me to understand how my writing benefitted from varied art modalities such...

In these 10, one-minute videos you have everything you need to start – and keep writing – your memoir. Letterip!

I used to be an in-car driving instructor. Each driving lesson lasted 90 minutes. Often, when I introduced a new maneuver – parallel...

Emineggs Benedict Named for writer Marshall Mathers III (a/k/a Eminem), this recipe encourages you to embrace, not censor your dark side....

Trust them. Make nice. Don’t denigrate, suppress or spend too much time analyzing them. Rather, befriend and use them to advantage....

When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is...

◊ ◊ ◊ Not everything that can be counted matters and not everything that matters can be counted. William Bruce Cameron ◊ ◊ ◊ Page count,...

Gina Greenlee photo: Whale watching on New Zealand’s Kaikoura Coast, June 2000 ◊ ◊ ◊ Years ago, while still new in my journey of teaching...

Get Excited Often, when we set out to “WRITE” we stumble because we are removed from the writing itself. We approach it like a 10th grade...

Fortune Magazine, December 2016 issue; How to Lead Like Zuck by Adam Lashinsky: “Ideas typically do not just come to you,” said Mark...

So what if your idea isn’t “new.” Don’t be afraid to take a new swing at an old ball. The 1937 Hungarian play, Parfumerie by Miklos...

It is more interesting to do things with sincerity and a certain quirkiness,” said late, renowned chef Charlie Trotter. “With perfection,...

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from...

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