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A Good Tangent Can Help Your Creativity
One of the aims of Tapping Creativity is to not only provide you with ideas to kickstart your own writing, but also help foster habits that keep your creative mind sharp at all times. This is so that...
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Be My Guest
You may have noticed a drop in my posting frequency lately. Things have been quite busy, however. I'm in the process if mixing and mastering my next CD, creating a samples/loops disc for audio...
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The Last Supper (A Short Story)
Finding a parking space was difficult. We were always the last to arrive and the last to leave. It was my first New Year's Eve outside of Detroit, and although it was only Livonia, there is usually...
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The Last Supper (The Study)
Two days ago, I posted a short story of mine called The Last Supper. I figured it was a timely post, with the new year approaching. I had something else in mind, however. If you haven't read the story...
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Tapping Creativity in the Stars
Regular readers of Tapping Creativity will know I'm a big proponent of turning to outside sources for inspiration, especially when you are experiencing a creative block. By "outside sources," I mean...
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Shaking the Creativity Tree
Much like shaking a lemon tree to break loose ripened fruits in order for them to fall to the ground for “easy pickings”; we can also use this same concept our creative minds.Here are a few simple...
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Coaxing Creativity with Music
Guest post by Vincent Tan of Polymath Programmer.Creativity is like a breeze: fleeting, invisible and just as hard to catch. Some people relax and let it come to them. Some people work hard to bring it...
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Top 10 Blogs for Writers
Over at Writing White Papers, Michael Stelzner has put together a great list of the top 10 blogs for writers. Here's a copy of that list, but please go to his site as well to get some descriptions of...
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Allowing Creativity
Today's post is from Vitor, who keeps an amazing blog called The Fractal Forest, which showcases his thoughts on reality as well as some incredible fractal art.Creativity used to be such a mystery for...
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Gettin' Organazized
So another year brings more resolutions. A big one on my list this year is to do less, but do it better. Like most other creatives I know, the curiosity of a new project can be irresistible, but a lack...
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Talkin' Baseball :: A Tribute to My Grandmother
My grandmother passed away from cancer this Tuesday in the early hours. I've been struggling with it. She was my hero. I owe so much of who I am and who I try to be to her influence in my life.I wrote...
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Random Acts of Creativity #1 :: Sharing a Sestina
This is the first of what will be an ongoing series of short posts that are designed to give your creativity a quick kick in the pants. So, with that, let's get started.The Sestina.The Sestina is a...
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Realizing the Dream :: In Honor of Dr. King
On this day, we Americans celebrate the life of one of our most renown civic leaders: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was not a president, nor did he ever hold any political office. Yet, his life...
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Random Acts of Creativity #2 :: Be The Messenger
In the second installment of the Random Acts of Creativity series, I'd like to talk about the ways we can use little bits of creativity in uplifting ways. Horoscopes are fun because the way they are...
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Having Goals :: Eyes on the Prize
The nature of creativity is often unpredictable. In some cases, it's easiest to tap creativity when all of the fences are down and your muse has the freedom to roam. At other times, there needs to be a...
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Free eBook :: The Lonely Writer
As a thank you to faithful readers of this blog, I'm offering up a free copy of my eBook, The Lonely Writer.This eBook was inspired by a set of posts that originally occurred on this blog last year....
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Co-Creating :: The Power of Two
In my last post, I presented an eBook that dealt with ways to stay focused when writing, because writing is, for the most part, a solitary endeavor. In this post, we are going to look at the power of...
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The MacGyver Guide to Creativity
If you are old enough to remember MacGyver, the first thing that comes to mind is his amazing ability to fashion new devices from just about anything. (Okay, maybe the amazing hair is the first thing...
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Clearly I'm Mistaken
Today's post is a short one, but one that should pay off over and over again. It's about mistakes. We all make them, especially typos. Oh, the typos!One of the most difficult disciplines for a writer...
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Clearly, I'm Unemployed.
I had a unique experience today. For the first time in my entire working life (16 years to date), I was let go. While I'm still unclear as to the reason, I refuse the let the change get me down....
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The Story in Your Hands
As parents, raising our children gives us the opportunity to relive certain parts of our own lives--parts we may have even forgotten about entirely. Last week, I took my daughter to perform (along with...
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Karma and Creativity
Sometimes I hear people say, "Karma is going to get that person." Usually it's when someone behaves in an unpleasant or unethical way. The sentiment, of course, is that what you put into something is...
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George Carlin has passed away of a heart attack at 71-years-old. I mention it here because he was, in my opinion, one of the few creative thinking entertainers to reach such a level of popularity. Here...
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10 Ways to Hurdle Writer's Block
Hi, friends. Been awhile since my last blog post and I thank those of you who waited patiently for my return. While my delay was mainly because of personal reasons, often delays are caused by a much...
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It's Where I'm From
A Guest Post by Brenda HinemanIf you have had the opportunity James Joyce's Ulysses, or any of Joyce's works for that matter, one thing that comes to the surface is that the city of Dublin takes on its...
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