by AuthorSue | Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorised
Last week, I wrote about living without assumptions here. Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about how a lack of assumptions can actually lead to creativity. There is that old saying, necessity is the mother of invention. But perhaps we can replace...
by AuthorSue | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorised
Spoiler Alert: This post has more questions than answers. Those of us who have flirted around the edges of Buddhism, or have downloaded a meditation app or two, have come across one pervasive truism: everything changes. During this present pandemic, this seems truer...
by AuthorSue | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorised
Those of us who spend time working in the arts, specifically creating new art – be it written, musical, visual – know instinctively that our brains work differently. We know that the hours of learning and practice have helped to develop areas of our brains...
by AuthorSue | Mar 3, 2020 | Uncategorised
There is an old adage that says you should write what you know. And I agree – as long as you take the idea of ‘what you know’ very broadly. For example, there are many writers who have written novels about places they have only been to briefly or not...
by AuthorSue | Feb 4, 2020 | Uncategorised
I recently wrote a blog about being creative here. In it I asserted that we are all creative beings, and that we hold ourselves back too often. My friend and fellow writer, Joe Stein, had the following insightful comment: I also think that some folk have a tendency to...
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