by Kathryn | 3 Sep 2024 | Deep: Week Six
Imagine the force required to blast the universe into being. That’s the strength needed to create your own story. Most of us are better at noticing our own flaws than we are at noticing our strengths. Yet celebrating what we’re good at allows us to make use of those...
by Kathryn | 2 Sep 2024 | Deep: Week Six
Several years ago I mentored a brilliant writer working on a gorgeous novel. To her greatdelight, a major literary agent offered to represent the novel. The writer – let’s call her Suzy– was thrilled. Until the agent suggested a series of changes which would make the...
by Kathryn | 1 Sep 2024 | Deep: Week Five
How does it feel to be in your element? In his book, The Courage to Create, the psychologist Rollo May observes that a crucial aspect of creativity is ‘the freedom of artists to give all the elements within themselves free play.’ Patti Miller’s memoir The Joy of...
by Kathryn | 31 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Five
Who dares wins, according to the British Special Air Service (SAS) motto. We dare to try,dare to win. Another dare is contained in the motto of the Enlightenment, Sapere aude. Dareto know. In creativity and innovation, a better motto might be Dare to Fail. ...
by Kathryn | 30 Aug 2024 | Deep: Week Five
Creativity is about making something from nothing. It’s amazing. Where once there was a blank screen, an empty canvas, a dry block of land, now there is a book, a painting, a house. Unsurprising, then, that this extraordinary act sometimes requires atomic force. It...
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