I wrote this working definition of creativity in my last post: Creativity is the movement, because of inspiration, from where I am in thought and time/space to a previously unknown place. Basically it is when we get an idea which is so moving we are forced to act on it and taken to a new [...]

Confessions of A Pilgrim is a book of interviews with author Paulo Coelho by Juan Arias. My friend loaned it to me a few days ago. It is so good I had to keep telling myself to stop reading and go to bed. The interviews are Coelho’s unmasking. The writer talks about every aspect of [...]

I was talking with my friend this week and he told me Coelho’s blog is really good. I promised myself I would take a look at the blog and found it by “accident” while I was surfing search results for internet, books. I love Coelho’s work. His books touch my heart and make me think [...]

My last written post talked about the unavoidable creativity learning curve. I used an e-book publishing software with the words easy, convenient and simple in the description to illustrate the omnipresence of the learning curve when the software did not fulfill any of those words of ease. Well another aspect of the creative process reared [...]

I ran into the creativity learning curve again this week. It happened when I started using a new software to teach myself how-to create e-books. The words easy, simple and convenient were used to describe the software. Those words caused me to forget about the creativity learning curve. The creativity learning curve begins the moment [...]

I was having a conversation with some artist friends about the challenges and great joy of our individual creative processes which took me back to when I was playing a lot of table tennis. I had decided to use the game to cultivate the ability to express myself fully while in front of an audience. [...]

I ended the last post with a question about what is keeping me from experiencing fun and passion during the editing part of the creative process. Part of the answer is that routine has replaced listening . The way to edit has become a formula and every piece I create must bend to it. “These [...]

I don’t feel alive when I’m editing. The more time I spend editing a creative project the less interested in it I become. There is something off in my thinking because I keep having this experience during music and writing projects. I want the joy and excitement of the flash of inspiration and the first [...]