Tag / #creativity
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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 authors better. I want to elaborate 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 we use to love our families, argue…
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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 I was a film student in the…
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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, we look at avatars, or written and…
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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 of the quote, Columbia University Professor Jacques…
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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 right-sided talent and force you to favor…
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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 elements and without resorting to clichés or…
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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 same way I came away from a…
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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 his first cousin. I’ve always called this…
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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 realization that periods of enlightenment are always…
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