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Send to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for September 9, 2012. All links will open in a new tab or window, so feel free to click through and leave some love in the comments. Once you close that window, you’ll be right back here for more linky goodness.
Announcements
Thanks for your patience while I was doing my Toastmaster thing. I didn’t win or place, but I had a fabulous time, learned and grew a great deal, and I am re-energized!
Resources/Tools
Gabriela Pereira presents Build Your Reading List posted at DIYFMA.
Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents Tully posted at View from the Wine Press.
Emi Bauer presents Out of the Mouths of Babes… er… Teenagers… posted at Emi Bauer: Confessions of an Incompetent Blogger.
Kenneth Lange presents Winston Churchill: A First-Class Writer posted at Kenneth Lange.
JeanNicole Rivers presents The Funeral Part I posted at JeanNicole Rivers.
Liz Shaw presents The Great Pillow Caper posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
wizard presents God Doesn’t Want Man to become Stupid- Why Was Man Evicted from the Garden of Eden posted at Wizard Corpse.
Aleksej Lazanski presents Get Healthier posted at Aleksej Lazanski.
Writing Quote of the Week
Jack Shepherd presents 30 Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors posted at BuzzFeed.
Writing Tips and Prompts
Chrys Fey presents Your Thoughts + Your Emotions = Your Characters posted at Writing with Fey.
Charlie Jane Anders presents Children’s author crowdsources the editing of her new time-travel novel posted at io9.
Carolyn and Gary Smailes presents Writing a Novel? Is Ignoring The Importance Of Setting Killing Your book? posted at BubbleCow.
Creativity Boosts
Lali Foster presents Junot Diaz and Min Jin Lee on Writer Origins posted at Asian American Writers Workshop.
Podcasts
This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Brainstorming with Dan. I found this episode fascinating – don’t miss it!
Visual Arts
Max Arshakov presents Roman Forum posted at History of Architecture.
Creative People Paying it Forward
Atticus Press presents Rejection Sucks. Get Even. posted at Atticus Books.
The Business of Creativity
C.S. Lakin presents 10 Reasons to Self-Publish – No More Excuses posted at Live Write Thrive.
Roni Loren presents Bloggers Beware: You Can Get Sues for Using Pics on your Blog posted at Roni Loren: For the Fearless Romantic.
LuSundra Everett presents 25 Compelling Headlines You Can Swipe posted at MilSpouse’s Empower Network Blog.
Jeremy Biberdorf presents 5 Places You’re Not Looking for Content Ideas posted at Modest Money.
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That’s all for this week. Be sure to submit your article for next week’s Carnival of Creativity by Friday at midnight!
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for April 29, 2012. All links will open in a new tab or window, so feel free to click through and leave some love in the comments. Once you close that window, you’ll be right back here for more linky goodness.
The Creative Mindset
Phillip Gruneich presents The stuff that IDEAS are made of posted at Short of Stories.
wizard presents The Greatest Reality posted at Wizard Corpse, saying, “Your reality is technically what you perceive the world or more accurately the universe to be. But it is an important fact that that different perceptions of reality lead to different results and different inspirations of how one would live. Some live fully while some don’t. And it is also apparent that the same law of nature applies for you and me so now as a climax of our Reality Check Special, I will share with you one of the most vital (if not the most vital) guideline that will govern your life towards more meaning”
Resources/Tools
Jayme Gates presents Supersize Me: Supervolcanoes posted at Science in My Fiction. A nice general review of the science and mythology of volcanoes with links to additional resources.
Sharing Our Work
Marcy presents Tuk Tuk Hell, or Heaven posted at Too Timid, Too Squeamish.
Jennif3r presents A Prayer for Creative Flow: Healing Creative Blocks (Poetry) posted at Freedom from Ashes, saying, “This is a prayer/poem about Creativity, Spirituality, surrender and allowing our Creativity to flow through the healing of any blocks.”
Emi Bauer presents The Strange Case of Dr. Feingold and Mr. Mike posted at Confessions of an Icompetent Blogger
Eula McLeod presents It’s Gr-r-r-r-r-reat!! posted at View from the Winepress.
Liz presents You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Chances posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Quote of the Week
When they give you lined paper, write the other way. – Ray Bradbury
Writing Tips and Prompts
Chrys Fey presents Find Writing Inspiration posted at Writing with Fey.
C.S. Lakin presents Creating “Moments” So You Don’t Bore Your Readers posted at Live, Write, Thrive
Creativity Boosts
JeanNicole Rivers presents Writing Frustration and A Creative Way to Push Through posted at JeanNicole Rivers, saying, “Getting over writing frustration.”
Podcasts
Larry Correia joins the Writing Excuses podcasters to discuss Guns and Fiction. If you’re talking guns in your writing, you’ll want to listen to this.
Visual Arts
Nicole Elena Robertson presents Nicole Elena Robertson: Paper Lantern posted at Nicole Elena Robertson, saying, “A recently produced papercut, responding to the prompt ‘play on words’.”
Creative People Paying it Forward
Pamela Jorrick presents Trashy Art- Washed Ashore posted at Blah, Blah, Blog.
The Business of Creativity
Daniela Baker presents 6 Skills Every Blogger Needs posted at Bloggers Passion, saying, “There are key ingredients in building a successful blog. You will need a set of skills like what’s listed on this article.”
Jon Rhodes presents How To Make Money From Your Hobbies posted at Affiliate Help!, saying, “This article gives hints and tips on how to make money from your hobbies.”
Spam of the Week
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That’s all for this week. Be sure to submit your article for next week’s Carnival of Creativity by Friday at midnight!
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If you are coming to this web site, I assume you are a fan of creativity. You cultivate it, share it, and are proud of it. Not everyone is a fan, however.
The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don’t even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed as a positive change agent, actually makes people squirm.”How is it that people say they want creativity but in reality often reject it?” said Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant professor of organizational behavior and co-author of research to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science…
Uncertainty drives the search for and generation of creative ideas, but “uncertainty also makes us less able to recognize creativity, perhaps when we need it most,” the researchers wrote. “Revealing the existence and nature of a bias against creativity can help explain why people might reject creative ideas and stifle scientific advancements, even in the face of strong intentions to the contrary. …
The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity.” -Science Daily
Writing Prompt: Write a scene with a creative character surrounded by people who are invested in the status quo.
Journaling Prompt: When have your creative ideas been shot down by people who are threatened by it? Have you ever stifled your own creativity because of your inner editor?
Art Prompt: Creativity
Photo Credit: country_boy_shane on Flickr
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The WritingReader is on vacation for a week, but while I’m gone, enjoy this visual prompt. Create whatever it inspires in you!
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Photo by jurvetson.
Send to KindleSend to KindleWe have some wonderful submissions this week for your enjoyment and edification. Here we go!
The Creative Mindset
Janece Herrington posted an encouraging article, Taking a Load Off, at The Wild Pomegranate. Do not miss this one!
Resources/Tools
Number Trouble from the New York Times will help you get some agreement between subjects and verbs. Warning, this is intense editor stuff, so be prepared for the My Eyes Glaze Over Syndrome. As an antidote, here’s a link to a recent podcast at Writing Excuses on The Hollywood Formula for fiction and script writers. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, and you’ll be annoyed to find out how much Hollywood manipulates our emotions.
The Business of Creativity
Heather Mills of Fast Article Answers gives bloggers some Simple Tips to Effective Content Writing to keep your blog fresh. And Rodney follows that up with Turning Ideas into Action posted at Life-fficient.
Sharing our Work
Saşa-Liviu Stoianovici presents Fugind prin peisaj pe timp de furtună, a video made with modified 90s video hardware posted at mutre, spații, combinații. If you enjoy ambient music and abstract art, you’ll love this. Even if you don’t, it’s still pretty awesome.
Creative People Paying it Forward
Raziel presents a thought-provoking challenge with his post Feed a Soul with that extra change in your pocket on his blog, Pens Or Swords.
That’s all for this week. Be sure to submit your article for next week’s Carnival of Creativity by Friday at midnight!
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