Rules and writers
Nikos Kazantzakis, best known as the author of Zorba the Greek, pretty much wipes the floor with literary theorists, quite...
Fewer means, greater mastery
Further thoughts on creative constraint. In this case, it seems a question of simplifying what you work with, to yield a more...
Of detonating ideas
Does that ever happen to you? That an idea detonates over your head, shooting up like a colossal cartoon exclamation...
Of abundant overflow
What causes creativity to spring forth? I like Seamus Heaney's idea that it is not so much reactive as a...
Diving in head first
Keats was a bold player, keeping his eye determinedly focussed on achieving enduring greatness, not on the fads and fashions...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
The path to alchemy
The route to alchemy?  There is none, there is no set path. As I understand this enigmatic injunction, we need...
When restraint liberates invention
Although this refers to art, it seems the same in other forms of invention: there is sometimes a curious connection...
How making triggers invention
After reading a few wonderful books by makers and writers, I have come to the conclusion that their passing observations...
An abundance of afflatus
A divine creative impulse or inspiration, from Latin afflare, 'to' plus 'to blow'. Wishing you an abundance of afflatus.
Source:...
Podcast review – Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden
Listening time: 12 minutes. This is a biography of an artist written by a poet. It's also a...
First showing
The blogophyte bulletin, of course, isn't just about blogging.  It's about starting with an idea and then making it manifest.  ...
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