Turning Creativity into Creation

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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo forming part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
[SOURCE] Photo taken by Sebastian Bergmann

I love this fascinating video by The RSA that  replicated its way through Facebook last year. It features a lecture by renowned psychiatrist Ian McGilchrist discussing our divided left and right brain.

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Overcoming Writer’s Block in Blogging with Poetry.

I’m at one of those points where I’m not allowed to write about the stuff that inspires me (yet), but what I can write about isn’t inspiring a new angle. So instead, here’s a lighthearted little blog on the subject of overcoming writer’s block…

What do you do if you want to write, but can’t seem to get the words out? Try writing about a different subject in a different format, such as poetry. Here’s my attempt to get past a recent case of writer’s block with three different kinds of silly poems and a rap song

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Pictures of dried up fountains make great metaphors for blocked creativity.
[SOURCE] (c) Kyknoord – used according to Creative Commons License.

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