Creativity Uplift

I’m thinking about starting a YouTube channel so I started watching YouTube videos for worked, and what didn’t. I noticed how they hook you with a topic and then drone on and on about sidetracks always teasing that they’re going to tell you the thing you want to hear but are taking forever to get to it. It was driving me crazy. And then I learned you need 4,000 hours of approved watch time to qual...

There are some natural rough spots in any endeavor, almost like it’s a law of nature and follows more or less the pattern of the musical scale. Do re mi fa so la ti do. Starting, sounding the “do,” everybody knows is hard. But what a lot of people don’t know is once you get started you feel good and everything going swimmingly for a while. And then, suddenly it all feels like it’s not working. You...

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” – W Somerset Maugham #Creativity #Writing #NovelWriting #Writer #writersoftictok #CreatorsOfTikTok #Creatives #Creative #Artist #ArtistOfTictok #3Rules #RulesForWriting #WritingRules #WritingTips #creativetips #TipsAndTricks #CreativeLife #ArtistLife #RiderLife #WritersLife #ImposterComplex

Humans only perceive a minuscule fraction of the activity of the universe. And as a writer of fantasy and science-fiction, I feel, I have responsibility to expand the awareness and of the everything out there as I tell my stories. #fantasy #fantasywriter #fantasywriting #writing #writingcharacters #nature #plantslover #plantsmakepeoplehappy #naturewonder #plantcommunication #organicwonders #author...

Don’t let the naysayers dim you lights. #Artist #Inspiration #CreativeInspiration #Painter #Writer #ImposterComplex #JackOfAllTrades #MultiTalented #artistontiktok #artistoftiktok #creatorontiktok #CreativesOfInstagram #writerontiktok , #writersoftiktok #Over60 #ArtistLife #ArtistLife #CreativeLife #CreativeLiving #CreativeImpulse #creativevision #MultiTalented

Serendipity will surprise you often if you keep your mind open for it when things go wrong. #serendipity #stingingnettles #mint #luck #lucky #generateserendipity #lucknow #openness #opennesstoexperience #opennessleadstopossibility #findingtheway #fyp #art #wisewords #wisewomen #DailyInspiration #Creativity

One way to think about the difference between art and creativity, for its own sake, versus art aimed for marketplace success, and recognition is to recognize them as games played for very different purposes. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning: publication, sales, awards. An infinite game is played for the purpose of keeping the game going. ##art##creativity##marketing##artmarketing...

I figured out my goal in life when I was four years old: to be one of the happy old ladies. #Happiness #HappyLife #Goals #lifegoal #lifegoals #philosophytiktok #philosophyoflife #lifelessons #lifelesson #wednesdaywisdom #wisdom #lifewisdom #oldladyontiktok #oldladywisdom

Inspiration can be found in the simplest things. Novelty is seeing the familiar with new eyes. #tuesdaymorning #inspiration #ArtInspiration #Novelty #Artist #Artist #Writer #Writers #writertalk #writertok #seewithneweyes #everydayinspiration #insight #fyp #freshperspective #unlockcreativity #myprocess #beauty #seeingbeauty #artisticvision

Nourish your creativity by learning to stay with the anxiety of uncertainty, rather than deciding some thing, anything, just to have it in the rearview mirror. #Creativity #CreativeSpirit #CreatorsOfTiktok #Artist #ArtistOfTikTok #Creator, #CreativeLife #CreativeHappyLife #BestLife #MondayMotivation #Advice #CreativeAdvice #AdviceForArtists #AdviceToArtists

Maybe I’m just not a spiritual person. Actually, that’s the premise of a book of mine coming out next year from @Oghma Creative Media , called The Dog Path to Enlightenment. Still, the benefits of meditation have been documented in studies about physical health, psychological health. And so while I don’t call it meditation, I do sit still, and breathe to the count of 50 breaths. #Meditation #Spiri...

lly spoke the words out loud. So a character with the ability to read, microscopic, facial movement or energy would be able to actually read, every thought that went through a person’s head without the telepath’s unpleasant side effect of having to listen to the random thoughts of the whole world. #FantasyWriting #FantasyCharacter #FantasyNovel #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingFantasy #Creatin...

Nothing grounds me and helps me sort through my chaotic thoughts like a physical journal. There’s so many things that I love about writing on the computer. I don’t know if I could’ve been a writer in the days before non-linear editing became possible thanks to computers. But I also find that the very ears of digital writing gets in the way of the core benefit of journaling my way through my strugg...

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What would happen in your writing, your art, your life even if you viewed rules as simply a starting point? The track where you board the train of creative endeavor going somewhere new. The tee that holds up the germ of your idea for the driver of your imagination to hit into the distance. Rules become something you go to to launch, not someplace you deliver yourself and your work to. #Writing #Cr...

Beware taking advice on your writing too literally. Too linearly. Always be learning and listening to critiques, but hand over those things to your imaginative, unconscious and trust that they will bloom there and percolate into your writing. ##writing##rewriting##storystructure##plot##plotstructure##writingadvice##writeradvice##writingadvicefromwriters##writingtips##writingtip##author##authorsoft...

Being blocked as an artist is often the result of one of two things: demanding a masterpieces to justify your efforts or driving your creativity into exhaustion when it does show up. This humble exercise can cure both problems: filling a page with shapes and lines without aiming for product at all and then stopping yourself while you’re still capable of doing more. the corner stone is doing it eve...

Taking a writer’s walk to integrate ideas into my unconscious that I get from reading and watching videos. Today I watched an Stanford economics class lecture by Robert Reich and thought, “I can use this for my next book!” BUT… an abstract concept can derail a story. So i walk to try to hand it over to my unconscious. #creativeunconscious #worldbuilding #robertreich #economics #w#writingW#WritingT...

“Show Don’t Tell” advice is best applied during the rewrite phase. Don’t let it interfere with getting the story down in the first draft. A lot of the telling you do in the first draft is for you, the writer, as you flesh out the story in your imagination. #showdonttell #writing #WritingTips #Rewriting #WritingTip #WritingTipsAndTricks #Author #AuthorAdvice #AuthorsOfTikTok #thursdaymotivation #pr...

The secret to a full life is to keep doing novel things. To resist the urge to dismiss experiences because you pre-judge them as not that interesting or worth your time. If you’ve never done it before, and you have no risk involved beyond expending a little of your time, then do it. It interrupts the headlong hurry of time, if nothing else. It puts a pause, a grace note that prevents the sameness...

I keep needing to hear my own advice, to remember to trust the process, to know that material success is random and that all I have control over is the act of creation. ##authortok##authortokfyp##booktok##books##authorsoftiktok##author##authorslife##authorphilosophy##writertok##writertoker##writing##showingup##authenticity##writinglife##creative##creativity##myphilosophy##creatortiktok##foryoupage...

Front loading happens all the time in the process of writing. Author has to visualize the world before they can send the characters into it. And the characters’ background and motivations need to be worked out to help the writer, direct them through that world. But, that is a writing task that is unnecessary for the reader, and can actually interfere with their enjoyment of the unfolding tale. #fr...

For artistic folks, dragging the weight of working toward recognition and compensation while following the dancing creative spirit results in lopsided, sometimes clumsy steps down your personal path. Instead of trying so hard to walk upright and glide gracefully, take a page from Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks. #creativity #beauty #montypython #quote #mondaymotivation #advice #creativityad...

Saul Bass, a legendary designer in the 60s, had strong ideas about Creativity and Beauty. Search YouTube and you can find old footage of him talking about it. #creativity #beauty #saulbass #whycreate #quote #mondaymotivation #advice #creativityadvice #artst #artistsontiktok #creatives #createbeauty #inspiration #quotes #creativityquotes

This is a trick I learned from watching Bobby McFerrin lead a singing workshop. Our best creative ideas can have the stamp of our personal style but that can be a barrier as well as a guide when starting something new. By playing atound with “wrong” or “bad” ideas and then returning to the original version trying to incorporate some of the discoveries from the exploration can bring vitality to you...