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Quotes to Help Overcome Creative Frustration | Creativinfluence
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Quotes to Help Overcome Creative Frustration. February 24, 2015. These ideas, though, are formed under the impression that creative projects are not worth doing. Not to sound like I’m excluding certain kinds of people, but sometimes we find it true when we say that artists understand each other better than most people. Inevitable to feel frustrated, though, and so I step in armed with a few quotes from artists themselves, in the hopes of inspiring. Here is one from. Japanese author, Haruki Murakami:.
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Creativity from Simplicity | Creativinfluence
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February 21, 2015. Appreciate, unless you like that kind of thing. And therefore simplicity is sometimes preferable to dense passages talking about the waste land. With that, I direct you to one of the poems by American Romantic, William Cullen Bryant. The poem is entitled “The Yellow Violet,” and talks about a simple flower and its merits, against the showy, gaudy blooms that blossom during the spring time. Here’s a passage:. Ere russet fields their green resume,. Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare,.
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Tired of Creativity? Here are 5 Inspirations to Help Rekindle the Love | Creativinfluence
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Here are 5 Inspirations to Help Rekindle the Love. November 11, 2014. November 12, 2014. Here are a few things that can inspire you and help regain your passion to create:. Reconnect with a friend or a relative that you have not seen or spoken to in years. Well maybe not in years, but in a really long time. Why does this help? Take time to appreciate the works of others. Forgive and accept the pain that others have caused you. More from my site. Read/Write: Reasserting the Importance of Reading. Pingback...
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Constant Writing as a Cure for Less Creative Days | Creativinfluence
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Constant Writing as a Cure for Less Creative Days. November 20, 2014. When you feel bad, write about it to find release. When you’re happy, write about it to keep yourself grounded. Whatever you feel at the moment, it’s best to put it in paper. And what are your phones for? Communication. It’s not just so you can stay connected with people. It’s best to never lose communication with yourself. So type it in. Write about every experience to monitor what and how you are doing in reality. More from my site.
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Why Fairy Tales are Appealing (and the Creative Things We Can Learn from Them) | Creativinfluence
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Why Fairy Tales are Appealing (and the Creative Things We Can Learn from Them). February 17, 2015. February 17, 2015. Presents reversals of gender roles (it is the princess who saves the prince) – something rather radical, considering the era in which it had been written. Mary de Morgan wrote. A Toy Princess,. Which may be read as a critique of the impractical and pointless ceremony of the upper class, of too much dependence and embellishment put on royalty, of the beauty and practicality of a simple life.
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An Introduction to Slipstream | Creativinfluence
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An Introduction to Slipstream. April 25, 2015. June 3, 2016. What we have here now, folks, is a neat thing called slipstream. Which sounds like a pretty slick genre. A quick look at the Wikipedia page on this subject gives you this:. Is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction. In fact, we exist in a world where writing has become experimental in terms of genre identity. What defines science fiction? Likewise, fantasy fiction? Slipstr...
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Get Back Up Again: Why Staying Physically Healthy Is Important for Creativity | Creativinfluence
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Get Back Up Again: Why Staying Physically Healthy Is Important for Creativity. February 6, 2015. No one likes getting sick. Okay, maybe there. So what am I getting at? Help, because physical activity will help get the mind running. There’s no problem getting back to your creative project after a quarter or a half-hour of work out, compared to getting back to work. More from my site. If It Ain’t Broke: On Revising Old Creative Pieces. What It Takes to Write. A Creative Year In Review. Jillian is an Englis...
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Tap Into your Subconscious for Better Ideas | Creativinfluence
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Tap Into your Subconscious for Better Ideas. December 2, 2014. In the scope of creativity, I think not. Playing safe is a crime against creativity. The bigger the risks, the crazier the ideas, the more promising the outcome will be. The best source of these extraordinary concepts are buried deeply in our subconscious. Why? Hypnosis has long been used to treat people who have problems concerning the subconscious. Is it truly effective in improving recollection? I’d like to note that it doesn’t work as a t...
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Divide and Conquer: The Habits of A Writer | Creativinfluence
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Divide and Conquer: The Habits of A Writer. February 8, 2015. I said it a lot before taking advice from strangers on the Internet, like me, is sketchy, unless we strangers have concrete proof that our advice works. And even then, it might not work for you. But humor me first, because I certainly hope you can relate: writing does not, and perhaps. Want to improve your writing and writers out there usually do you. And it’s perhaps going to be a bumpy ride, incorporating writing and easing it into your rout...
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Voice Recognition: Why the Creative Voice | Creativinfluence
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Voice Recognition: Why the Creative Voice. February 20, 2015. February 20, 2015. Is the voice too easy? Does it sound like a kid talking, or does it sound so complicated and technical that it could ward off the reader or not get the reader’s interest? It’s definitely important to consider that, whether in reading or in writing, the voice exists in that manner because the author did it that way, and therefore there must be some reason why the author did it a certain way. What does this mean? Answers to So...