Innovation According to Star Wars
In my last post on the Star Wars universe, I advised disgruntled fans that creating an original piece of work would help them sympathize with…
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The Homework We All Need To Do
Let’s think about writing for a moment. We think of writing in two ways. First, there is the writing we do everyday. The phrases that…
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Authenticity is All in the Planning
The great director Orson Welles said “a poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.” That’s no longer true. When…
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Rebuild the Resume, LinkedIn
Each week, my writing course The Interactive Voice reevaluates classic writing forms, contrasts newer online models, and critiques specific student examples. In the third week,…
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Smartphones Don’t Create Our Anxiety
Some sentences just stick with you. I never forgot the following quote from an assigned reading in college. Years later, I would discover the author…
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You Are Not Right-Brained
You are not left-brained either. A creative right half of the brain and an analytical left half don’t exist. The education system didn’t weaken your…
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The Art is Invisible
Coco is great. Pixar’s latest is everything you want. It’s gorgeous. It’s respectful. It’s human. Like all Pixar films, it touches the heart with these…
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Teaching Creativity Takes Patience
I met with the principal and teachers at a local high school to discuss my ideas about applying social-media-based learning to project-based learning. In the…
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We Think in Drafts
Every summer for most of my life, my father’s side of the family held their reunions at a lake cabin in New Hampshire owned by…
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You Can Find Genius Anywhere
I wrote about the total eclipse and how an influential voice is a similar alignment of the right elements. I posted about Manhattan and my…
