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Untitled: Thoughts on the Creative Process
Blaine Hogan makes me sick. Don’t get me wrong. I love the guy. I’ve known him for five years, and I’ve enjoyed every moment I’ve spent with him. He’s one of the most creatively expressive people I know, and even … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, inspiration Tagged books, creativity
The Creative Loop: Movement
In part one of this series, I introduced The Creative Loop and described the stages that exist in the loop: Engage, Capture, and Create. In this part, I will focus on the movement between the stages. It is helpful to … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, ponderings Tagged attending, creative_loop, creativity, drafting, shipping
The Creative Loop: Stages
A year ago, I scratched out a drawing in Penultimate. It was an idea I dubbed The Creative Loop as an attempt to visualize how my creative process works itself out. (At the time, I think it was mostly an … Continue reading
Posted in creativity Tagged capture, creative_loop, creativity, engage, publish
What is Your Creative Process?
Yesterday, I received a submission on my initial site questionnaire from a potential client. In the final comments space, she asked me, “What is my your creative process?” I don’t know if this was off-handed curiosity, or a make or … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, ponderings Tagged creativity, workflow
two years…and still plenty of fog
It was two years ago yesterday that I launched Creativityist. I had a general idea in mind of what I would do with the site, but like most creative work, I didn’t have a clear destination. Seems like my best … Continue reading
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in the meantime
Last summer, an idea for a project was born out of a project that was in the midst of failing. (Seems to work that way a lot for me!) For the last month or two, I’ve been busy working on … Continue reading
Posted in inspiration Tagged creativity, improv, inspiration, mike subelsky, video
creating requires doing [the war of art]
This post is the first in what will probably maybe hopefully be a series of reflections on The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. The War of Art is subtitled Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. … Continue reading
Posted in ponderings Tagged blocks, books, creativity, quotes, steven pressfield, the war of art, writing
the box [the creative habit]
This post is the last of an ongoing series of reflections on my reading of The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp. Today, our seven month, irregularly recurring series on The Creative Habit comes to an end. But, in the interest … Continue reading
Posted in creativity Tagged creativity, scrivener, steven pressfield, the creative habit, the war of art, twyla tharp, yojimbo
creativity is an act of defiance [the creative habit]
This post is part of an ongoing series of reflections on my reading of The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp. From time to time, I look back at some notes I collected from The Creative Habit to find inspiration for … Continue reading
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scratch when you don't itch [the creative habit]
This post is part of an ongoing series of reflections on The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp. It is a guest post by my friend Blaine Hogan. Blaine is an actor, a visual artist. He’s great at making stuff, and … Continue reading
Posted in creativity Tagged blaine hogan, creativity, ideas, scractching, the creative habit, twyla tharp
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