Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

What Are You?: The Fine Art of Labels

One of my aunts called me last week, just to catch up. She asked me about my academic status (I went AWOL), and as I tried to explain my fluid situation to her, she replied:
“What are you exactly? I mean, what do I call you? What do you call what you do?”
I don’t blame her [...]

The Road to Done is Paved with Good Distractions

I’m going to work on my fiction.
That sentence summarizes one of my major writing-related goals this year. The goals, if you want to get into details, are to publish (not just write) 3 short stories and participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo, or at least just spend a month or two writing the first draft of [...]

Content Inbreeding: Why We Should Make New Connections

“I think I’ve had it.”
I said this to myself six months ago, as I was trimming my RSS subscriptions. Why do many blogs echo each other’s content? What is the difference between “5 Ways to Use Twitter for Business” and “How to Use Twitter to Promote Your Business”? More importantly, why do these two articles [...]