Archive for March, 2007

Phew! What a tough couple of weeks - tough but very instructive about the kinds of stuff that drain away my creativity - and perhaps yours.
I promise not to bore you with the details - but over this last two weeks of March I’ve been committed to doing a mountain of assessment work for a […]

In my previous post, Planning and Goal Setting - a Message for the Terrified I talked about the difficulty many creative people have in applying goal setting and planning to their own artistic medium. We looked at how fear, bad experiences, negative image and a lack of knowledge about planning and goals could all play […]

Planning and goal setting? Is the mere mention of these twin devils making your stomach churn?
I know that many successful artists have harnessed the dark arts of planning and goal setting to their advantage. But it’s my guess that for many more, any thought of imposing any kind of order on their creativity is enough […]

Have you ever been hit by a bout of unexpected creativity? A moment when out of the blue, your head is aflame with ideas that are coming faster than you can write them down? It happened to me last week – and I felt as if I’d been gifted enough material to write at least […]