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Can Creativity be Taught or Are You Born with It?

Can Creativity be Taught or Are You Born with It?

It’s both. Yes, creativity can be taught. And yes, we’re born with it. We are all born to be creative. Some of us just forget that along the way. Creativity brought us from living in caves to McMansions. It brought us from the wheel to the spaceship. I...
C is for Collaboration Inspires Creativity

C is for Collaboration Inspires Creativity

Welcome to day 3 of the Blogging A-Z Challenge. Today is a dual word: collaboration and creativity. Most people have an image of creative people as loners who write while holding up in a lonely office. Or painters sitting off by themselves in a field somewhere....
Why Does Creativity Thrive in Structure?

Why Does Creativity Thrive in Structure?

When we think of creativity, we often think of someone getting inspired and painting a masterpiece or writing that bestseller. But it doesn’t happen that way. That overnight sensation? Spent years honing her craft, practicing over and over and over again to get...
Are You in Need of Some Creative Inspiration?

Are You in Need of Some Creative Inspiration?

Feeling stuck? Can’t find the right words? Is your picture not looking the way you want it to look? Are you in need of some creative inspiration? Anna Quindlen said, “You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.” Much...
That’s Great If You’re Talented, But Do You Put In The Work?

That’s Great If You’re Talented, But Do You Put In The Work?

It’s pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won’t take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.Natalie Goldberg That’s great if you’re talented, but do you put in the work?  It really doesn’t matter how talented you...
April’s Creativity Challenge

April’s Creativity Challenge

Yes, in all the madness of the move, I forgot to prepare the creativity challenge calendar for April, but that’s ok because my post from last week actually ties into the April challenge of decreasing stress and increasing play. I hope you enjoy April’s...