Creativity
Creativity posts explore techniques for coming up with new ideas, inventing new thoughts and techniques, and generally following those activities that are perhaps more right-brained but also could involve heuristics and other content generation approaches.
The following content is in the creativity category:
Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series) | Jun 26, 2024
How the blog-to-book experiment is going: challenges and thoughts | Jun 15, 2023
Book review of the Art of Noticing, by Rob Walker | May 19, 2023
Three questions people ask me each week | Jul 1, 2015
Benefits of tool diversity, part II | Aug 7, 2014
The part of the brain you should listen to when writing | Jul 16, 2014
Asking questions is more important than finding answers -- why? | Apr 27, 2012
Guest Post: Is Technical Writing Creative? | Mar 14, 2012
A Lifetime of Reading Versus a Lifetime of Writing | Jan 13, 2012
What I've Learned from Lunchtime Creative Writing Workshops | Sep 30, 2011
My Problem with Fiction, and How I Tried to Resolve It | Aug 11, 2011
Presentations Versus Conversations | Jun 17, 2011
What Does It Mean to Be Innovative? | May 24, 2011
I am perhaps finishing my basement, someday | Feb 23, 2011
*Don't know how you do it all*: Some Thoughts on Productivity | Jan 11, 2011
Content Curation versus Content Creation | Dec 22, 2010
Being Contrarian | Oct 29, 2010
I miss working with my hands | Aug 25, 2010
Problem Solving and Sprinkler Repair | Jul 15, 2010
Breaking Things as a Form of Creativity | Jul 1, 2010
The Compulsion to Figure Things Out | Apr 30, 2010
The Long Tail Applied to Writing | Apr 20, 2010
Comparing Creative Writing with Technical Writing (2 min Videocast) | Apr 1, 2010
What You Cannot Do Sitting Down | Dec 24, 2009
Removing ice from a driveway is like .... everything | Dec 19, 2009
Theme Parks and External and Internal Input | Nov 5, 2009
NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo Start Nov 1 | Nov 1, 2009
Forms of Play | Oct 16, 2009
Being boring (Sins of blogging) | Oct 13, 2009
Choosing Between Academic and Corporate Life: Did I Make the Wrong Choice? | Oct 10, 2009
Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging) | Oct 4, 2009
My STC Summit Blogging Presentation Is Free | Oct 1, 2009
"Tell me a story" -- Advice from Writers | Sep 17, 2009
Writing as Conversation -- Brainsparks Podcast with Ginny Redish | Sep 5, 2009
Creativity in the Workplace | Sep 1, 2009
Avoiding the Shut Down Mode | Aug 30, 2009
The Link Between Creativity and Organization | Aug 15, 2009
Write When Inspired, Rest When Tired | Aug 10, 2009
Blogging as an Outlet for Technical Writers | Jul 31, 2009
My Guest Post on Unstoppability for DMN Communications | Jul 22, 2009
If You're a Writer, Write | Jul 13, 2009
Seeing the World in Clearer, Simpler Ways | Jun 22, 2009
Thinking About Vienna and the Legacy of Mozart | Jun 7, 2009
Drawing as a Tool for Thinking: The Back of the Napkin | May 19, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and the Real Reason You Are a Successful Writer | May 13, 2009
The Wind and A Lot of Thoughts About Pessimism and Optimism | Apr 21, 2009
What to Blog/Write About | Apr 15, 2009
Introduction to Technical Writing (podcast) | Mar 24, 2009
"Like My Own Personal Brand of Heroin" | Mar 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Language -- Essential Listening for Hyper-corrective Grammarians | Jan 2, 2009
What I See -- James Hall's Essays and Florida | Dec 21, 2008
Writers See Stories Where Others Don't | Dec 7, 2008
Snippets Toward a Philosophy of Life | Nov 28, 2008
Usability Newsletter Interview – I'd Rather Be Writing – The Man Behind the Words | Nov 17, 2008
Answering Reader's Questions: 'My Desire to Write Burns in My Heart Daily' | Oct 7, 2008
Ten Technical Writing Stereotypes | Sep 28, 2008
The Intersection of the Personal and Professional, or, Why My Attempts at Nonfiction Essays in Grad School Bombed | Jul 5, 2008
Keep an Open Mind: Detention Without Amanda Jones Isn't Necessarily Bad | Apr 8, 2008
Lots of 2008 SXSW Podcasts Now Available | Mar 10, 2008
Two Types of Posts in the Blogosphere: Knowledge Posts and Creative Posts | Mar 7, 2008
Stoking the Creative Muse: How Finding Ideas to Write About Is Similar to Remembering Your Dreams | Feb 29, 2008
Brain Waves and the Stimulation of Motivation/Creativity | Nov 1, 2007
Evening Fishing at the North Pier | Jul 7, 2007
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