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It seems wrong to say I haven’t posted anything this week because I’ve been busy — it’s Tuesday! But in many ways this is more like Thursday to me since I spent the weekend working. And a lot of that work is in the half-baked stage. But some isn’t … Creative energy I have a [...]
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There are few things as frightening for the creator of something than, “What happens next?” This is because the next thing had better be good – at least as good as what preceded it. That’s what the audience expects. That’s why they ask, “What happens next?” A great recent example of this in action is [...]
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Creative people start out with a model in their heads of how they will be creative. It’s a template of how their creativity will manifest itself. One of the most important steps they make in their development is losing that model – throwing it aside. Of course, that leaves a vacuum and a vacuum wants [...]
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In my post Publish or perish: the lessons of Scheherazade I listed six lessons, the last of which was, “Perfect gets you killed.” I don’t think I explained what I meant very well so let me try now. Most creative people I know spend a great deal of time editing their work: revising and tweaking [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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What we see dictates how we see it
by Bill on March 22, 2010
How we interpret the world is affected by our perspective. Sport provides numerous examples. Is a play legal or illegal? The referee makes a call. Video replay is examined. Why? Simply because the referee’s perspective is very specific. He or she was in a particular place in time and space and made their call based [...]
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