This is an awfully good lesson that a lot of writers need to hear. "The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on … Continue reading QOTD
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"One of the questions that is probably troubling you at the moment is this: How do I know whether I’m a writer? And the question can only be answered with another question: Well, do you write? If you don’t, you’re not. If you do, you are. There’s nothing else to it. Ah, but are you … Continue reading QOTD
There Are Voices In My Head
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” E.L. Doctorow Maybe it’s because I just finished binge watching United States of Tara on Netflix (highly recommended), but I’ve been thinking about voices in my head. Specifically, when I write. A couple of voices talk to me when I am working on a script. Some good, … Continue reading There Are Voices In My Head
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A few words of wisdom from the masterminds behind the Apple corporation. "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to … Continue reading QOTD
Share The Space
One of our memberships was created with people like me in mind - the struggling writer, recent grad, nervous to check balance in bank account type. But this membership isn’t taken advantage of nearly as much as some of the others. Possibly, I thought, people just don't know that it's an option. We offer the … Continue reading Share The Space
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"Hurt is the human condition. Fortunately, hurt is not the only human condition. Humans also feel hope and love and fear and confusion and power and glory. They experience frustration and defeat and triumph. They long for the wrong person, they make bargains with the devil, they take things that don’t belong to them, they … Continue reading QOTD
Media Fast
In my last year at Emerson College I had a Media Ethics class with a professor named Tom Cooper. The kind of professor that makes those crazy tuition costs worth it. Among many other valuable things, he taught his students to be conscious of the amount of time we spend consuming media. He even encouraged … Continue reading Media Fast
Relationship Between Age and Creativity
Researchers, psychologists, art historians have studied, debated and pondered the correlation between age and artistic creativity throughout history. Pablo Picasso, Mozart, and T.S. Elliot all created some of their most well known art in their twenties, while Cezanne, Hitchcock, and Robert Frost produced some of their most important works in their forties, fifties and later. The … Continue reading Relationship Between Age and Creativity
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