Seeing another’s work can lead to more creative insight

Yesterday my kids and I watched “My Kid Could Paint That.” It’s a documentary by Amir Bar-Lev about the 4-year-old painter (now about 10) who set the art world abuzz with her abstract paintings. In the midst of the documentary filming, “60 Minutes” broadcast a piece, which called into question who was responsible for the [...]

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Being true to your creative muse…with or without plagiarizing

This is a modified version of a post that originally appeared on WOW-WomenOnWriting. I started re-thinking the idea of building a creative idea off of someone else’s work–does that rise to the level of plagiarism? If not, what does? Or should we be more relaxed about plagiarism?

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Let’s start having some creative fun

Often a creative idea grabs you and won’t let you go. Sometimes, eh, not so much.
Last week I attended the annual BlissDom blogging conference in Nashville. After the first session I attended, on backcoding no less, I phoned my husband and told him I had figured out what I needed to change with The Write [...]

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