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How to Come Up with a Great Book Concept
Embed from Getty Images A Simple Two-Step Process — Let me start with three reasons working on a book with a lousy concept is a bad idea: Beautiful, compelling writing is terribly important to...
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Embed from Getty Images By The CS Team BrainFall‘s Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Paul Skowronski knew he and his cohorts had a hit on their hands when the site’s “How Texas Are You?” quiz...
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5 Tips For The Rookie Elementary School Chaperone
Recently, I took a month off from work, packed my VW Tiguan and made the almost 1900-mile road trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans to spend some “daddy/daughter” time with my 6 and 3/4-year-old...
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4 Ways to Get Unstuck and Start Creating Again
Embed from Getty Images — I recently sat down with an artist friend of mine to see how she was doing. We’ll call her Diane (not her real name). She is a talented leader, writer, and event planner....
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How to Juggle Multiple Projects Without Losing Your Mind
Embed from Getty Images Jugglers have always fascinated me. As a kid, I would watch variety shows like That’s Incredible! or The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and stare at the screen. I was...
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4 Unusual Ways To Get More Writing Done
— Picture this: a writer sits down at his desk to knock out his word count for the day. It might be a chapter of a book, a blog post, or some freelance writing. He glances at his calendar and sees that...
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3 Ways ‘La La Land’ Will Ignite Your Creativity
La La Land was one of the most well-known movies featured at this year’s Academy Awards. It tells the story of a jazz pianist who falls in love with an aspiring actress, and the resulting conflict...
View ArticleCuriosity Didn’t Kill Anything
Embed from Getty Images — In my first semester at UCLA, I was lucky enough to be placed with a screenwriting instructor who gave me back my favourite creative tool. I think I misplaced it somewhere...
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How Does Your Creativity Help You With Your Depression or Anxiety?
Embed from Getty Images Creativity comes in many strains. Whether you paint, write, dance, play an instrument, or act, having a creative outlet can soothe anxiety and save you from your darkest...
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How Using Paint, Pen on Paper or Song to Revisit Trauma Helps Us Put it in...
Embed from Getty Images By Agata Vitale, Bath Spa University In the introduction to his beautiful book The Body Keeps The Score, psychiatrist Bessel Van der Kolk writes: “One does not need to be a...
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Playing Songs by Tool Using Actual Tools Sounds Far Better Than We Could Have...
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5 Fun and Easy Ways (for Real) to Avoid Summer Brain Drain
Embed from Getty Images ’Tis the first day of summer from an astrological perspective! And all across the country, kids are on summer break from school and you know what that means: the internet is...
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5 of the Best Ways to Trigger Creative Thinking
Embed from Getty Images — Every one of us has experienced the block in some way. You know, that time when your brain seems to have lost every shred of authenticity and the capacity to think...
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My Wife Becomes a Mirror and I See Myself
Finding self-love and acceptance with laughter Steven Lake sees himself through his wife’s eyes, and it’s not a pretty picture — it’s hysterical. — If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. Yakov...
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The More Minds That Get United on an Effort, the More They Attract and Create...
— Just like negative thinking can create undesirable outcomes, positive thinking can create optimistic ones. Our thoughts do matter, and we can use them to create the reality we want. However, we were...
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Are You Stifling Your Creative Voice?
— As a writer, one of the biggest things I’ve noticed is that my fear of transparency generally doesn’t relate to myself. Usually, it’s concerned with hurting those who are in my story by default. It...
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Blogstorming
A few weeks ago I was working on the content pool for the upcoming weeks. Trying to sort out which ideas would work well and what kinds of things I might want to talk about. Somewhere in the recent...
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Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
— Back in the 40s, TVs were giant, ugly behemoths. They were jammed with vacuum tubes, big bulky components, and were prone to overheating and failure. Earl “madman” Muntz was an engineer and...
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4 Tips to Traveling Solo
My creative writing professor once said, “If you are feeling uninspired, read.” I would take it a step further and say, experience. As Stephen King said in his book “On Writing,” “Life isn’t a support...
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