Category Archives: On Creativity

Book Review: Find Your Artistic Voice

Posted on January 22, 2020 by nathanalbright

Find Your Artistic Voice:  The Essential Guide To Working Your Creative Magic, by Lisa Congdon This book characterizes much of what is disastrously wrong with literature about creativity.  The author considers herself an expert as someone who had once desired … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Keep Going

Posted on January 22, 2020 by nathanalbright

Keep Going:  10 Ways To Stay Creative In Good Times And Bad, by Austin Kleon The author notes at some point during this book that he began this particular book with a series of blog posts relating to creativity, and … Continue reading →

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The Art Of Monsters

Posted on January 16, 2020 by nathanalbright

Over the past few years there has been an increasing tendency to look harshly at the art of monsters.  We have found our appreciation of Bill Cosby’s calls for decorum to younger comedians and his family friendly entertainment like the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Dear Ally, How Do You Write A Book?

Posted on January 16, 2020 by nathanalbright

Dear Ally, How Do You Write A Book, by Ally Carter I am not familiar with any of Ally Carter’s fiction work (which she refers to a bit ad nauseum here), but this book is mildly entertaining.  To be sure, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: From Chaos To Creativity

Posted on January 16, 2020 by nathanalbright

From Chaos To Creativity:  Building A Productivity System For Artists And Writers, by Jessie L. Kwak I always feel a mix of compassion and interest in reading the efforts of people to attempt to systematize for fun and profit those … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Light In The Dark

Posted on January 16, 2020 by nathanalbright

Light In The Dark:  Writers On Creativity, Inspiration, And The Artistic Process, edited by Joe Fossler My own feelings about this book are somewhat ambivalent, as is often the case when it comes to books dealing with authors talking about … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Moment Work

Posted on January 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

Moment Work:  Tectonic Theater Project’s Process Of Devising Theater, by Moises Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with a lot of others I can only think of one reason why someone who is a remotely decent or morally upright person would … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Drinking From The River Of Light

Posted on January 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

Drinking From The River Of Light:  The Life Of Expression, by Mark Nepo If you want to read a lot of terrible books with terrible advice written by people who are absolutely ignorant about what they are talking about but … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Creativity, Spirituality, & Making A Buck

Posted on January 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

Creativity, Spirituality, & Making A Buck, by David Nichtern If this book is instructive, it is not so much instructive in the way that someone who is creative should live but rather instructive on a certain type of person and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Poemcrazy

Posted on December 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

Poemcrazy:  Freeing Your Life With Words, by Susan G. Wooldridge I disagree with nearly everything in this book.  For all of that, I still think this book is useful in a very limited sense, and that is demonstrating once again … Continue reading →

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