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Example: The Impact of Metaphors

Example: The Impact of Metaphors

The Impact of Metaphors

Unleash Your Creativity: The "Once Upon a Time" Ulysses Short Story Contest

Unleash Your Creativity: The "Once Upon a Time" Ulysses Short Story Contest

Competition - write a short story (400-800 words) that starts with "Once upon a time..." and win a three-month subscription to the stell writing app Ulysses

Ulysses: A Writing App That Rocks! Your Essential Guide

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Ulysses: A Writing App That Rocks! Your Essential Guide

I've just completed a new 10-minute video about one of my favorite writing applications "Ulysses"

Novelty As A Writing Tool: My Session Today

Novelty As A Writing Tool: My Session Today

I use the fear of feeling bad in the future to keep myself on track in my writing.

What Project To Work On? Using Metaphors To Help You Focus

What Project To Work On? Using Metaphors To Help You Focus

Like any creative person, my biggest agony has to do with the question 'what specific project' should I work on today?

How To Write A Book

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How To Write A Book

I've often wondered how best to explain to myself how to write a book in a visual simplicity. And then I can across this nifty little drawing from the book: "Show Your Work," by Austin Kleon. Over the last few years, I've been focusing

Are You Stuck Creatively? Try This Simple Method

Are You Stuck Creatively? Try This Simple Method

The technique that is used here is a form of clean language, that is, you use a form of neutral questions with yourself to dissolve creative obstacles. The most important thing here is to avoid judgment or shaming and have a calm conversation with yourself.

Using Metaphors to Extract Ideas

Using Metaphors to Extract Ideas

Using Metaphors is a powerful way to extract your ideas.

SPLITTING THE ATOM: Dicipline Your Creative Senses

SPLITTING THE ATOM: Dicipline Your Creative Senses

It is unnecessary to fall prey to this predictable dilemma. Suddenly feeling like you cannot create, has nothing to do with your talent or your ability, it is a foreseeable sequencing of irrational, and impersonal thoughts welded together by unearned authority over your mood and talent.

The Courtroom of Your Creativity

The Creative Path

The Courtroom of Your Creativity

When we want to produce a creative piece of art, a story, a film, it's easy to talk ourselves out of it.

Being too self-conscious & Alan Alda

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Being too self-conscious & Alan Alda

This obstacle of being self-concious serves an obvious purpose, it's intention is to stop you from putting out bad stuff into the world. This is of course a layered obstacle, it is a realm of elements, because we are not talking about perfectionism.

SCREENWRITING: Think in layers

SCREENWRITING: Think in layers

You can think of your story in independent threads that work together. This is different from thinking in ACTS. We're moving beyond that, though this does not substitute it, it's meant to improve the ACTS approach.

THE TWO METHODS OF CREATING

THE TWO METHODS OF CREATING

In this post, I wanted to touch on the two main approaches when it comes to creating your original idea. These two apply when you write, edit, and so on. You already know them as classic opposites, they are yin and yang, left brain vs. right, rationality vs. poetry, fast