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Category Archives: Creatives
People want to eat but they won’t join the hunt
Leave a commentMost people wear your web site, twitter feed or facebook page like they wear a jacket or drive their car. When they want to use it, they do. When they don’t, it is out of sight and out of mind. … Continue reading
A monkey with a loaded gun does not make him a marksman
8 CommentsI wrote four drafts of this #letsblogoff and scrapped every one. I don’t think the world needs another diatribe about how we are all getting stuff for free and think we are owed full service. I’ll let others do that. … Continue reading
When we fail as readers, we fail as writers
4 CommentsI read this article in the NY TImes this week about e-books adding music to the “experience.” Champions of this technology justify it by saying it adds to the experience, enhances imagination, meets readers where they are, blah, blah, blah. … Continue reading
The creative spark
6 CommentsThis weekend’s ear worm is Karen Carpenter’s version of Rainbow Connection, specifically this verse: Who said that wishes would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star? Somebody thought of that and someone believed it, and look what … Continue reading
Confessions of the creative wannabe
2 CommentsI remember buying a tape recorder at Radio Shack when I was twelve or thirteen years old. It was one of those old ones that you loaded the cassette tape into the top and plugged in a wired microphone. I … Continue reading



