Creativity Uplift

How to be here on social media as a celebrant of the creative spark, this mosaic of humanity, all our graces and all our failings on display. #Creativity #MillionsOfCats #wisdom #philosophytok #insight #fyp #freshperspective #unlockcreativity #hero #perspectives #artisticvision #gainingperspective #artist #artistlife #CreativeInspiration #coaching #ArtistCoaching #ArtistEncouragement #Encouragemen...

If you write stories, Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse is at the top of my must read list. Not because it tells you how to structure a story, but how to conceive of the heroes transformation in whatever story you write. ##writing##philosophy##philosophytok##culture##infinitegame##finitegame##finiteandinfinitegames##writertalk##writertok ##everydayinspiration##insight##fyp##freshperspective...

No featherdusting! (A particularly egregious example of telling-not-showing). #featherdusting #story #storystructure #Writing #WritingIdeas #StoryIdeas #HowIWrite #WritingProcess #MyWritingProcess #pantser #MyProcess #Writinglife #creativeprocess #Imagination #FYP #WritingCoach #womenwriters #WomanWriter, #WomenWritersOfTikTok #Writingcommunity #WritersOfTikTok #CreativeWriter #playwright #playwri...

To get your conflict-writing muscles warmed up, put two characters in a situation, each of them wanting something different and encountering resistance. Then see how it plays out. #Writing #WritingStories #Writer #WritingResponse #Writingcommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingConflict #writingtips #writingadvice #writinglife #WritingPlot #PlotTip #PlotTips #WritingTipsAndTricks.#WritersOfInstagram #Writ...

And agreeable nature can be a block sometimes in writing fiction, because a necessary part of the growth of your main character is enduring and overcoming difficulties even disasters and you might find it easier to make things easy on them rather than hard. #Writing #Writer #WritingStories #WritingConflict #Conflict #agreeableness #AgreeablenessTrait #Creativity #CreativeStrength #masterclass #wri...

The children’s book, Millions of Cats, suddenly made sense to me as an adult as a metaphor for all the wonders of social media, and the limitations of attention that each individual human has. I may not be able to have all the wonderful things I see on the web, but I can enjoy belonging to a world where these things come into being magically out of nothing, but thin air and imagination. ##WorldWid...

If you want to make money from your art by creating products online with it, let your own preferences direct you to what you should make. That way you’ll have stuff that you like, and use with your artwork on it. And because it’s something you use yourself, chances are, you’ll make things that other people will like as well. #PrintOnDemand #POD #Artist #Artist #Monetizing #Monetization #CreateASto...

The description of the road to hell in Dante’s Inferno makes me think of the artist’s struggle to build a platform on social media. #dante #dantesinferno #impostorsyndrome #impostersyndrome #impostercomplex #impostorcomplex #beatingimpostersyndrome #artistlife #writinglife #CreativeLife #CreativeHappyLife #CreativeLifestyle #Advice #AdviceForArtists #AdviceForCreatives #Wisdom #wednesdaywisdom #cr...

Sharing some of my recent thoughts about art. #Creativity #artist #artistlife #artistsoftiktok #CreativeInspiration #coaching #ArtistCoaching #ArtistEncouragement #Encouragement #author #writersoftiktok #Writer #philosophy #philosophytiktok #philosophyofart #ArtistMotivation #artistsoftiktok #fyp #fypage hy#WiseWords #Wisdom #ArtistInspiration #WritingInspiration #WriterWisdom #CreativityMaster #G...

Everything you make is a miracle of creation. The story or the painting or the flower arrangement on the table. All of them are the product of something ineffable, whether you call it imagination, spirit, or consciousness. #transformation #Creativity #artist #artistlife #CreativeInspiration #coaching #ArtistCoaching #ArtistEncouragement #Encouragement #author #AuthorsOfTikTok #writersoftiktok #Wri...

Xeno’s Paradox explains why art is never finished only abandoned. It was meant as a sendup of a certain school of philosophical thought in ancient Greece. But there’s some truth in the absurd thought experiment that can help artist let go of perfectionism, since the perfect can never be reached. #ZenosParadox #xenosparadox #Perfectionism #PerfectionismProblems #GetItDone #ArtIsNeverFinished#NeverF...

Negative emotions are easy. Anger fear — there’s a single area in the brain where if you stimulate that spot you trigger the emotion. But positive emotions - feelings of joy, Humor, enthusiasm - these are patchworks of activity coordinated in the brain. So give yourself a break if you find negativity easier than maintaining positivity. #Creativity #Creative #CreativityUplift #CreativeProcess #Phil...

love a good first sentence because it tells me that for the next 3- 4- 500 pages I’m in for a great ride. Martha Wells is one of my heroes because she does it with skill, and also with a good bit of humor. And humor is essential for me.#marthawells #serpentsea #booktok #booktoker #amreading #amreadingfantasy #FYP #Funny #FantasyWriter #FantasyWriters #Writinglife #author #authorsofinstagram

Emotional regulation and not mental rigor is the key to becoming more consistent showing up for the creative process. #Creativity #CreativeProcess #DailyPractice #DailyCreativity #ShowingUp #Paintings #Writing #WritingTips #AuthorTok #creativeinspiration #fyp #inspiration #motivation #creativemotivation

Butterflies were symbols of the soul in Greek mythology. I think that every time I see them fluttering in the fields makes me happy. #Butterflies #Soul #Soulful #Symbol #symbols #symbolic #butterfly #wisdom #mondaymeditation #mondaymindfulness #philosophytiktok #philosophytok

The ability to hold on to hope even after all hope is lost- that may be the essential quality of the hero. Live or die, they never give up on hope. It isn’t any special ability or their victory that makes us love them. It’s that they model for us the prime essential for a heroic life: Hope.

The discipline part of yourself that organizes your creative space and gets you to the table isn’t the part that knows how to paint, write, or create. But the part of you doesn’t relinquish control easily. Only once it fails and throws down the pen or the paintbrush in disgust can the genuine, generative creative process begin. ##Creativity##CreativeProcess##Flow##CreativeInspiration##WorkingArtis...

The model from people like Thoreau on how committed we should be to our work to the exclusion of the external world is based on a self-reliance lie. Thoreau had a mother and a sister who cooked his meals and did his household chores. Don’t let people who have servants and no responsibility define your work ethic. ##ImpostorComplex##ImposterSyndrome##selfreliance##Thoreau##WorkEthic##Creativity##Cr...

Think you’re too old to be an author or artist? Mary Wesley, one of my heroes, was 70 when she wrote and published her first novel. It’s not too late. It’s never too late. ###writertok##writertoker##writertokfyp##marywesley##nevertoolate##authorsoftiktok##artistsoftiktok##writersoftiktok##writinglife##creativelife##toolate##booktok

What nobody tells you about working every day as an artist or a writer is that you also have to know when to stop. Stopping before you’ve depleted your energy. Stopping so that you actually feel excited about continuing. In forcing yourself to put it off, the next day you are itching to get back to it. #Artist #ArtistLife #ArtistLife #CreativeProcess #Creative #Creatives #howtobeanartist #artistof...

My life as a writer and artist transformed the year I discovered the power of a small, finite daily task to give a foundation to my life as a creator. I posted other reels about how and why to set up this transformative habit for one’s life as a creator. This reel is for those of you who want to know how I structure my life as an artist to be more creative and more content. I This real is less abo...

I came up with the phrase “claw machine of life” when I was trying to explain to somebody about being an artist, and putting my work out in the world. My friend laughed and kind of got it, the frustration with the lack of total control, but also the enticement of the prize is waiting. If you could just have a little bit of luck, and so I thought I would share it. #fyp #philosophy #philosophytiktok...

The cure for imposter syndrome exhaustion is doing one “something” every day. If you’re exhausted by your doubts, you might only be able to do a very small something and for a while do ONLY that small something. Then stop. Because if you manage to take a teeny tiny step toward your art every day, you will deflate the enormity of the imposter complex, and turn it into a manageable helper, who keeps...

Ad hominem: directing attacks at a person rather than their position or ideas. I know social media is a wild west free-speech territory, but self-appointed gunslingers who feel like they can take pot shots at other people are not welcome in my comments. Argue with me all you want. Attack my ideas. But the minute I think that you’re attacking somebody as a person in the comments, I’m gonna block yo...

The heartbeat of plot is the scene. There’s a character in a situation, a conflict or problem arises, then whatever it is gets handled. Each problem, once handled, whether solved or shifted, results in a new situation with a new problem making a new scene. String a bunch together - Problem —problem handled —problem—Problem handled - and you’ve got the two-cylinder engine of plot. Now, if you want...