by Orna Ross | Jan 3, 2012 | The Rest |
Towards A Creative New Year, Final Instalment. We're all trained to notice the gap. Between what we have and what we want, between where we are and where we hope we're going, between the person we are and who we'd like to be. That's where the new year's resolutions...
by Orna Ross | Dec 31, 2011 | Poetry |
Towards A Creative 2012: Part 3. They don't publish the good news. The good news is published by us. We have a special edition every moment, and we need you to read it. The good news is that you are alive, and the linden tree is still there, standing firm in the harsh...
by Orna Ross | Dec 15, 2011 | The Rest |
I used to do long-distance running and whenever I hit a wall, I would think of Haruki Murakami quoting Guatama Buddha on the difference between inevitable and optional: ‘Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ‘Say you’re running and you start to think,...
by Orna Ross | Dec 2, 2011 | The Rest |
Giving is at the heart of the creative approach. You give something of yourself – sometimes for payment, often not. Sometimes knowing exactly why, often not. This blog post is my once-a-year callout, where you get the opportunity to intentionally give — by...
by Orna Ross | Nov 23, 2011 | The Rest |
“Being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. The most productive ones get started early in the morning, when the world is quiet, the phones aren't ringing, and their...
by Orna Ross | Nov 21, 2011 | The Rest |
With the help of the good folk at PaperLi, I'm now curating The Creative Times. In this daily epublication, I aim to gather the very best writing and broadcasting about the very best creative work from around the English speaking world. Today's issue has: Bruce...
by Orna Ross | Nov 17, 2011 | The Rest |
In the early 1990s, three psychologists visited Universitat der Kunste, the esteemed arts academy in West Berlin, to study a cohort of elite violin students and see what made them so very good. As a control group, they selected students from the education department...
by Orna Ross | Nov 15, 2011 | The Rest |
Fostering Flow Tip #17. Become a “master of perfect indiscipline” and stay in bed. By Siddhartha Mukherjee. “I sat in the room every evening staring at the wall, writing nothing. Three weeks went by, and not a single worthwhile paragraph oozed out. I...
by Orna Ross | Nov 11, 2011 | Fiction |
AFTER THE RISING. EPISODE SIX: I'm No Traitor The story so far: Jo Devereux is back in Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up, for her mother’s funeral. In her will, her mother’s has bequeathed a pile of family papers and asked Jo to write about her...
by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2011 | Fiction |
AFTER THE RISING. EPISODE FIVE: GOING UNDER The story so far: Jo Devereux is back in Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up, for her mother's funeral. In her will, her mother’s has bequeathed a pile of family papers and asked her to write about her...