Posts tagged 'creativity'

Tradition & Renewal: Mountain Moments

By pam

October 17, 2012

Traditions are part of our lives whether we create new ones or adopt old ones. I attended Mount Holyoke College and though I transferred and graduated from Wesleyan University, I feel the closest ties to Mt. Holyoke. As more time passes, I’m convinced that some of the reasons for my attachment have to do with [...]

OTHER TAGS: inspiration, Mount Holyoke College, Mount Tom, mountain day, Pomeroy Mountain, tradition, Wesleyan University, writer's block | Comments: 4 Comments

Parisian Promptitude

By pam

March 19, 2012

Yesterday I returned from a lovely trip to Paris and Aix-en-Provence. Unfortunately, though I tried to use blogsy on my iPad, I wasn’t quite able to figure it out to post from there. So, for today, a quick posting of a few photos from the trip that might spark something for you for prompt writing. [...]

OTHER TAGS: art, art and writing, creative writing prompts, filling the well, promptiful, promptitude, writing, writing prompts | Comments: 6 Comments

Joy – Filling the well

By pam

February 23, 2012

Today, I’m happy to bring you a guest post from Mary Jo Thome, who is exploring other art avenues, and reflecting on what those ventures mean to her writing life. We’ve talked before about different ways writers can fill the well of creativity. A creative life needs rest, needs reflection and needs joy. I hope [...]

OTHER TAGS: art and writing, arts and writing, Dave Thome, filling the well, inspiration, Mary Jo Thome, real writer, serious writer, violin art | Comments: Add a comment

One Thing at A Time

By pam

February 3, 2012

“To do two things at once is to do neither.” Publilius Syrus Last year, there was a lot of buzz on the web and the blogosphere about Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Lisa Rivero looked at the book indepth and I highly recommend her posts. Frank Bures [...]

OTHER TAGS: add and writing, creativity and flow, focus, Frank Bures, internet, internet and our brains, Lisa Rivero, Nicholas Carr, one thing at a time, websucker, writing | Comments: 8 Comments

Creativity Blood-suckers – “Die Vampire, Die!”

By pam

October 31, 2011

It’s a white Halloween here in Westhampton, MA where I’m visiting my family. Fifteen inches of snow fell overnight on Saturday – power’s out all around us, but somehow, we got lucky up here on my sister’s side of the mountain. Here’s the view, so if it’s warm and snow-free where you are, go ahead, [...]

OTHER TAGS: die, die vampire, dracula, halloween, title of show, twilight, vampires, writer's block, writing | Comments: 4 Comments

Autumn in Miniapple

By pam

October 23, 2011

Lisa Rivero has a terrific post up about a fall trip to the Big Apple, which helped me decide to share some of the fun things I did this weekend in the Miniapple, which is what Minneapolis is sometimes known as. And, while NYC, is often also called The City, Minneapolis and St. Paul are [...]

OTHER TAGS: Garrison Keillor, Grey Sparrow Press, John Lithgow, Minneaolis, St. Paul, Storyhill, The Loft, Twin Cities, writing | Comments: 6 Comments