by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2012 | The Rest |
Creatives have always known the value of community and that ideas – and the people who have them – attract each other. Just ask any writer or artist who left home for the big city. Now economists are putting a monetary value on that. In 1990, economist...
by Orna Ross | Jul 4, 2012 | The Rest |
“The kernel, the soul – let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances – is plagiarism. “For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside...
by Orna Ross | Jun 25, 2012 | The Rest |
In his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, author Daniel Pink describes the change we now experiencing in work and education, as we shift from information-shuffling to creativity. “We progressed from a society of farmers to a society of...
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2012 | The Rest |
The best skill you can teach yourself as a creative is how to find the space between your thoughts, at will. Your thinking mind is best understood as an instrument, a tool. Yours to be used for a specific task and when the task is completed, laid down. We do that by...
by Orna Ross | May 27, 2012 | The Rest |
#writers #amwriting #writetip Writers! There's what your mother, your publisher, your friends and society at large think you do. There's what YOU think you do. And then there's what you really do (see below). Though some of us, (she says, blushing a little as she...
by Orna Ross | May 16, 2012 | Poetry |
I wish we could flow as oceans tide, swelling with joy at our urge to unfurl. I feel we should roll as planets turn, dark days and seasons held level with light. I sense we can grow as mountains rise from stresses rock setting, solid and free. I intend to go as...
by Orna Ross | May 14, 2012 | The Rest |
Every so often a creative freelancer just has to get out of the house. Usually to get in some caffeine. We've become a modern day menace, apparently. Spreading our laptops and smartphones across tables and sofa, turning our local Starbucks or Costa into an office....
by Orna Ross | Apr 23, 2012 | The Rest |
#GoCreative. I'm a bit sceptical about brain training and #creativity. Brain training works best in getting you used to jumping through particular mental hoops and improving your ability to do a specific brain task. But creative thinking is different. The brainwaves...
by Orna Ross | Apr 22, 2012 | Go Creative! |
Closing a week of posts about the launch of the Alliance of Independent Authors at London Book Fair, this (long) post offers: A fascinating and lively podcast discussion I took part in on The Naked Book, about self-publishing's place in the industry. Some favourite...