The Creative Instinct

Well, in my previous post I asked whether I should rename this blog to help it gain a bigger readership. I had three excellent, helpful comments (thanks to Victoria, Jerry & Vix) plus others that came to me direct.

The answer was pretty unanimous – keep the name but optimize the site. And there was some great advice about how to do so.

It’s amazing how my thoughts have cleared since I wrote a few days back and I now feel ready to take the blog to its next stage. That will probably mean a new look to the site. I like the current style, but need more structural flexibility as the blog expands.

It will also mean slightly rewriting earlier posts so that creative is featured less and words like art and artistic are used more often. Having said that, I really like the phrase suggested by Vix, creative development instead of personal development, which a few people found a bit of a turn-off. I’ll have to investigate that a little more.

Reader Demographic
Just as a matter of interest the blog is currently receiving almost twice as many visitors from the U.S. compared to the U.K. ( where it’s written), with Canada and Australia coming in third and fourth. The blog has been read in 77 countries over the last month. It’s not called the world-wide web for nothing, is it.

A Welcome to Sheffield Writers.
I just received my copy of the Sheffield Writers’ newsletter The Inky, which has a short piece introducing The Creative Instinct. Welcome. Please explore the blog and tell your friends!

Writers from Sheffield and South Yorkshire can learn more about The Inky here: http://www.signpostsonline.org/index.htm