by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2014 | The Rest |
“Please, “ask yourself whether these great sorrows have not, rather, gone right through the middle of you? If much within you has not changed, if you haven't somewhere, in some place, changed your being, while you were sorrowful?… “If it were...
by Orna Ross | Jul 17, 2013 | The Rest |
I'm taking a short break from blogging the “Go Creative!” book to post this interview with Tom Evans from The Zone Show about my own creative process. In it, Tom and I talk about: how books get started and how to keep writing the seven stages of the...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2012 | The Rest |
The key to creative success is excess, suggests Anais Nin, because creation comes from overflow. “You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. “… Creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to...
by Orna Ross | Sep 10, 2012 | The Rest |
When you set out to create something, the conventional, conditioned part of you sets off fear alarms, in the form of resistance and self-sabotage. Stephen Pressfield's book Turning Pro, talks a lot about this tendency, which he calls resistance, in terms of the...
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...