Reptitude™ Center for Creativity
rebooting again!
Twyla Tharp’s new Sinatra music show is coming to town. This reminded me about The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for Life, her richly practical and inspiring book. Among many valuable insights, she describes “the spine” and its essential role in creative projects. Can you guess what this week’s creativity tip touches on? [...]
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Since creativity is not easy to measure, you can’t consistently quantify your daily creative effort beyond the simple question: Did I show up today? Showing up means arriving at the studio or desk or workspace ready and willing to do the work as required. Some days, what is required may be the joyful task of [...]
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Have you ever worked on a creative project only to have it fall short in the execution stage? Of course, we all do! Well, now we have a formal term and a scientific measurement scale for judging that kind of outcome: creality. Best of all, the creality scale is not relegated to the negative end of [...]
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Earlier this month I spent an agreeable day attending a hand made journal making workshop with Lisa Sonora Beam – you may recognize her as author of the excellent visually-oriented creative business primer, The Creative Entrepreneur. If you aren’t familiar with her work, read on because you might want to experiment with making a journal or two of your [...]
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I have been working on a new habit. As a coach, of course I am familiar with theories about how to change habits, or how to stop doing one thing and start doing something else. Unfortunately, in defiance of all logic, my mind generally refuses to play “those games” so progress can be difficult at best. Like many creative people, [...]
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The phrase “beginner mind” ran through my head this morning while I considered how to approach my photography challenge today — and what to post here on the blog in terms of relating the challenge to creativity. Here’s the rub: Although I have taken thousands of photographs over the years, and sold hundreds of them, they [...]
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Today’s post is about showing up. I think Woody Allen is the one who is quoted as saying winning or success is 99% about showing up. (Or was that Charlie Sheen?) Nevermind, the point is I made a commitment to publish a photo or two each day during this week-long photography challenge and I am keeping [...]
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Sometimes we let a dare get away from us. Does that ever happen to you? It happened to me (again) today. As a result, I will be showing some photographs during the coming week as part of a creativity challenge. I hope you enjoy them. If you’d like to show some photographs of your own, [...]
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Way back in January, I decided to try out a new-to-me technique: selecting a theme word for the new year. So now it’s time for the first quarterly report. According to my old MBA training, anyway. Have you tried doing this theme word thing? What word(s) did you pick? Or did the theme pick you? I [...]
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You may be wondering about all the NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month fuss. Wondering why anyone would even want to try to write a novel in a month or 50,000 words of anything in thirty days. At that pace, the quality will be subpar and the burnout risk is above average. Let’s be bluntly [...]
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