Creativity Series: Shannon Huffman Polson “Please and Thank You”
Learn more about the creativity series here. Like the series on Facebook. Listen to the podcast on iTunes. Download: Shannon-Huffman-Polson.mp3 I begin. Fingers moving over the keyboard, because this...
View ArticleCreativity takes Courage. Announcing the Creativity Series eBook
When I began this journey back in May, it started out as a selfish quest for an answer. I’d started writing my novel and kept running into the same roadblocks of fear: fear of failure, fear of wasting...
View ArticleCreativity Series: Adele Konyndyk “Redeeming Meandering”
Learn more about the creativity series here. Like the series on Facebook. Listen to the podcast on iTunes. Download: Adele-K.mp3 I could tell you that writing fiction feels like making some sinuous...
View ArticleWriters Series: “Writing for a Living” by Amanda Fanger
This is a new series (different than the Creativity Series Part 2 that’s coming). You might be asking what’s up with all these serieses? I don’t know, they’re just fun to do. For this Series I asked...
View ArticleI’ve watched you trying to teach and you are really not very good at what you do
This is from an essay by Kim Stafford about success and failure: Some years ago, during a graduate-level writing workshop on a cold November night, a student asked me at the break if she could talk...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time by Evan Kingston (Guest Post)
This Series is about the challenges writers face while working a day job and trying to make it as a writer. Today’s post is from Evan Kingston. He lives in St. Paul, MN. He runs the frozen department...
View ArticleCreativity Series: “Three-Part Harmony” by Nancy Nordenson
I. In the beginning, you have an image, a question, a word that won’t leave you alone. It keeps coming back. Knock, knock; here it is again. You pull out a notebook and make a note. A day or two later...
View ArticleCreativity Series: “The Active Creator” by Sam Mahlstadt
I am more writer than theologian, but neither by trade. However, as the concepts I learned during my education in the written word and my my experiences in the local church mingle, I’ve realized...
View ArticleCreativity Series: “I Stand at the Untitled Piece” by Addie Zierman
The show at the Walker Art Center is called This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, and I am struck. It’s the work of the first generation of artists to grow up with televisions at...
View ArticleHow to be ahead of your time as an artist: Daft Punk as Pioneers “five years...
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk, work with an acute self-awareness of their innovation, and of their audience’s incomprehension of their ingenuity and impact. “To jump...
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