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The Creativity-Addiction Connection
While we often may discuss the influence of madness on creativity, I’ve rarely run across the connection addiction and creativity. In a blog post on Psychology Today, Mary Sojourner, the author of “She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction” (Seal Press/April 2010), writes about the moment she realized its connection to her [...]
Using Your Creative Affirmation
photo credit: iwona_kellie Yesterday, after I spent a few hours and hours revising a long work of fiction, I hit a wall. I felt I couldn’t move the revision forward. But with three young kids and freelance writing, time set aside to revise is precious. I didn’t want to walk away, but I felt as [...]
Creativity Takes…
photo credit: garycycles3 The artist Henri Matisse is credited with the saying “Creativity takes courage.” Do you agree that creativity takes courage? For me, creativity takes different things at varying times or cycles. Courage is probably found in one of those cycles. Today, for example, I will head out on a mini-retreat to work on [...]
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