by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Creatives have always known the value of community and that ideas – and the people who have them – attract each other. Just ask any writer or artist who left home for the big city. Now economists are putting a monetary value on that. In 1990, economist...
by Orna Ross | Jul 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
“The kernel, the soul – let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances – is plagiarism. “For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside...
by Orna Ross | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, author Daniel Pink describes the change we now experiencing in work and education, as we shift from information-shuffling to creativity. “We progressed from a society of farmers to a society of...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
The best skill you can teach yourself as a creative is how to find the space between your thoughts, at will. Your thinking mind is best understood as an instrument, a tool. Yours to be used for a specific task and when the task is completed, laid down. We do that by...
by Orna Ross | May 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
#writers #amwriting #writetip Writers! There's what your mother, your publisher, your friends and society at large think you do. There's what YOU think you do. And then there's what you really do (see below). Though some of us, (she says, blushing a little as she...