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You've probably heard a zillion times that the best writers are well-read people.  Why is that?  Bottomline is "skill".  Twyla...

This week has been a good week for me.  After 13 drafts of a manuscript that I have been working on for exactly ONE year and ONE day, I th...

The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry  ~ Robert Burns, To a Mouse Since starting to work through Twyla Tharp's ...

Some time ago I made a list of everything I wanted to try and accomplish in January when I would be "in between" jobs.  Keeping in...

Monday I blogged about Twyla's 6th  Chapter on preparation in which she outlines ways to "scratch for ideas.  So, with the agenda t...

Happy New Year, everyone!  Its good to be getting back to a more "normal" life after the travel and hub-bub of the holidays.  And ...

As the new year approaches, I feel the need to get organized.  Often I spend the early days of January cleaning out my closets, cabinets a...

Hopefully, you are looking with anticipation to 2013 with plenty of new memories from 2012 in your pocket.  I can definitely say that this y...

This past weekend I helped my parents decorate their Christmas tree.  As I lifted the lid off of the dusty box of ornaments I was flooded w...

The focus of Chapter 3: Your Creative DNA is learning more about yourself and who you are in regards to your art.  Twyla therefore gives u...

In Chapter 3 of “Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life”, Twyla, through many examples of creative past (Mozart, Jerome Robbins) hit...

I'm not gonna lie.  Twyla Tharp has been stressing me out this week. Sometimes I wonder how my Type A personality is going to survive 12...

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”   Stephen King, On Writing When I first started my blog and called it “The Write...

"Creative Habit" is a 12 week series based on "The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life" by Twyla Tharp (Simon...