DO YOU LOOK FOR INSPIRATION IN UNLIKELY PLACES?

Recently on a trip to the Montana mountains, where we spent a week camped near a river that slowly snakes through a broad meadow, I noticed a pair...

HOW HAS THE HISTORY OF STORYTELLING IN IRELAND INSPIRED WRITERS AND IMAGINATION?

On my first visit to Ireland, I went to Matt Molloy’s pub in Westport, County Mayo and had the delight of hearing a...

HOW DOES IRELAND INSPIRE CREATIVITY?

I take small groups to the West of Ireland and I am always struck for the support for the arts in Ireland. On my last trip I discovered a poetry walking tour...

Do You Let Distractions Get in the Way of Your Creativity?

I started writing before the development of the personal computer, when cut and paste meant I was down on the floor with a pair of...

The earth has music for those who listen. – George Santayana

CONNECTING TO CREATIVITY AND NATURE CAN SUPPORT OUR WELL BEING

Nature and creativity are doorways to the sacred. They can help us...

HOW CAN TAKING A WALK ENHANCE YOUR CREATIVITY?

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. – Frederick Nietzsche

Me thinks that the moment my legs being to move, my thoughts begin to...

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you’re feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you’re reading. – May Sarton

TAKING NOTES - PLAYING...

Dear Dixon, Thanks for your response. I didn't intend for it to seem that I devalue rationality. I think all our capacities are important and that they are a complex weave. And I share your deep...

Hi Dixon, Thanks for sharing. Einstein himself said that none of his discoveries came from using his rational mind. I probably could have a made that clearer. Best, Suzanne

Stories Bring Our World Alive - The Power of Storytelling and the Oral Tradition

On my first visit to Ireland, I went to Matt Molloy’s pub in Westport, County Mayo and had the delight of hearing a...

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. - George Lucas


THE IMPORTANCE OF DAYDREAMING
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary - Steve Jobs

READY TO CREATE A NEW YEAR, A NEW STORY
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. - Ken Robinson

THE PROBLEM WITH IGNORING OUR CREATIVITY

I've been...

CREATIVITY AND NATURE

When I received the inspiration for the name of my business Creativity Goes Wild I was on a modern day vision quest with Bill Plotkin in an extraordinary canyon in southern...

CREATIVE PLAY

Lately I’ve been writing at least one haiku poem a day - the Japanese form of three lines of 5/7/5 syllables. I’ve been doing it first thing and then posting it on Twitter, not...

Are You Feeling Resistance to Expressing Your Creativity?

Note: With the New Year approaching I wanted to offer this to the community in support of embracing our creative selves in...

WRITING FOR WISDOM & CLARITY IN THE NEW YEAR

Talking to paper is talking to the divine. It is talking to an ear that will understand even the most difficult things. Paper is infinitely patient....

THE HEALING POWER OF WRITING POETRY


Some years ago I did a workshop with John Fox, author of Finding What You Didn't Lose and Poetic Medicine, who works with poetry for the purpose of...

Hi Everyone,

I just wrote this article for the monthly newsletter I send out to my mailing list and I am so excited to share this information on the neuroscience of what happens when we write or...

Greetings Wacco Community,

Hi, I’m Suzanne Murray and I'll be drawing on my thirty years of writing experience and eighteen years of teaching the creative writing process to offer inspiration,...