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What will you create in your world today?




Halloween Candy

Even Dum-Dums know where to get good Halloween candy.


Halloween Stories
Halloween

Michelle McLellan

Pride's a Sin… Didn't You Get The Memo?

Ve vont to drrrink your blooood!


Math grave

PUN-ish #1

Math grave

The place where subtracted, reduced, and rounded numbers go.

Soul-etry

Home

Art and writing prompts to bring you home

My heart's true home is on Venus. I want to fly away free. I will live in a sparrow's nest and call the raven my brother, the sky my sister, the wind my home. The jackdaw knows my real name and all the crickets are singing.

My true home is the moment before a thunderstorm breaks over the plains, air electric and green with an eldritch light. Dusk draws out long and long in the north in the summertime.

Listen — mama is calling me in before it gets too dark, her voice the first voice I ever heard. She was my first home, but I drifted away. Absinthe sends me sailing on an indigo midnight voyage in a fragile origami boat. I am rocked to sleep by moonlight and the sweet tender whispers of young girls.


Spotlight

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

Art as an act of time travel

Every creative act carries an imprint of the moment it was born. A brushstroke holds the energy of a heartbeat; a phrase carries the breath of the one who wrote it. When another person encounters the work, it is as if they touch that moment directly.

Musing

9 Greek Muses

Molly Anderson

Invoking the 9 Greek Muses

The original nine Athenian muses were the nine sister Goddesses of Imagination, Inspiration, and The Arts in ancient Greek mythology. Many cultures have celebrated, worshiped, and tried to entice the Muses: Calliope · Clio · Erato · Euterpe · Melpomene · Polymnia · Terpsichore · Thalia · Urania


Genius habits

Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Shape the Anatomy of Creative Genius

Five habits.

Strategies

Window view of trees

Donald M. Rattner

The Psychology of Space

Impact of environment.


Inspiring Art

Joy Sikorski

Joy Sikorski

Whimsical drawing lessons

From How to Draw a Clam and Squeaky Chalk.

Essay

Perfect Personal Essay

Nancy Slonim Aronie

Crafting the story only you can write

Write in a way that moves, connects, and resonates.

Writing

Erasmus

Estelle Erasmus

Writing that gets noticed

Get your essay writing ideas flowing and seen.


Interact

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 Mini-golf brain-stretchers.

Creativity Coaching

Collage

Jill Allison Bryan

Yoga Don't and Imperfectionism

Give yourself permission to be imperfect.

Teaching children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Robert Henri's 'The Art Spirit'

Inspiring ideas since 1929.


Art-making

Bird

Joy Sikorski

Draw a little bird

From Squeaky Chalk.

People

Creativity 101

James C. Kaufman, PhD

Creativity 101: Defining Creativity

The history of the study of creativity.

Printables

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 mini-golf brain-stretchers. Play now!


Writing

Memoir as Medicine

Memoir as Medicine

Why Write?

If no one ever reads what you write, will you still be fine?

Deeper

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

Harnessing AI for Artistic Expansion

An unlikely ally?

Muses

thalia

9 Greek muses

Thalia

Muse of comedy, humor, and laughter.