by Orna Ross | Dec 8, 2014 | The Rest |
Graham Greene: “I was trying to write a book that simply would not come. I did my daily five hundred words, but the characters never began to live. So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income...
by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2014 | The Rest |
Regular readers will know how influential the work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, lecturer and peace advocate, Thich Nhat Hanh, has been on my own thinking, especially for the Go Creative! books. Now the 88-year-old “Thay” (as his followers call him,...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2014 | The Rest |
Has it happened to you: a restless night, spent tossing and turning, yielding good creative ideas? In a recent podcast, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels admitted that while under the stress of having to produce a topical weekly show he found that a lack of...
by Orna Ross | Nov 6, 2014 | The Rest |
In Creativity is Forever, Gary Davis listed 22 characteristics that were most commonly found in creative people, some positive (curiosity, independent, risk-taking, high energy, emotional) and some negative (impulsive, hyperactive, argumentative). He found that many...
by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2014 | The Rest |
One of Amazon Kindle's least known features allows you to peek over the reader’s shoulder, to follow people of interest to you and see their Public Notes on what they're reading. And once you enable Kindle Public Notes for a particular book, then any of your followers...