Tag: Creativity

• Notes on The Creative Habit

  The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp is the first of several books I’m planning to read on the creative process. Tharp’s book is a great place to start, as it contains many nuggets of useful information on fashioning a creative life that can be put into practice immediately. Although Tharp’s art is dance, her advice is…

  Shannon Turlington

  August 24, 2015

  Notebook

  Accidents, Art, Creativity, Failure, Grooves, Habits, Memory, Metaphor, Projects, Reading notes, Rituals, Ruts, Scratching, Skills, Spine, Twyla Tharp, Writing

• Writing advice, distilled…

  Every writer must eventually write a book about writing. It’s some sort of unspoken rule. Due to my lifelong interest in the writing process, I’ve read a fair number of these advice manuals. (Two of my favorites are Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley and Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose, because both of these books say…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 26, 2015

  Notebook

  Advice, Anne Lamott, Books about writing, Creativity, Francine Prose, How to write, Jane Smiley, Writers, Writing

• Book review: Everyday Writing

  Everyday Writing: Tips and Prompts to Fit Your Regularly Scheduled Life by Midge Raymond Everyday Writing is a short e-book that promises to help people who want to write but who can never find the time. It’s divided into two parts. The first part offers tips to help readers start writing and keep writing. I…

  Shannon Turlington

  March 2, 2013

  Reading

  Book Reviews, Creativity, Everyday Writing, Midge Raymond, Writing