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Jan.23.2012
I’ve been writing a lot about creative intentions and thinking about my own for 2012. Now that the new year is settling in, I’d like to share some of what I’ll be up to over the coming 12 months.
1. PUBLISHING. It’s no news that I’m a convert to indie publishing, and have taken my rights back...
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Jun.08.2011
My mother was a homemaker, the sort of woman [Virginia] Woolf referred to as “the angel of the house”, who, like many such house angels, had given herself over to a life that was too small for her.
“She had always seemed to me like an Amazon queen, captured and brought to a suburb, where she was...
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May.21.2011
Today, we need to talk about sex. As in gender. The male/female thing. I know, I know. You’re thinking: how does that feed into a series about the intersection of true wants with work and money? And isn’t that supposed to be the subject of this series on Working With Wants?
Bear with me. It’s...
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May.08.2011
Mental positions like those listed in the previous post can be a real block to going creative.
Here’s a simple method to weaken their hold. Every day for 21 days, first thing in the morning and last thing at night, repeat the following to yourself:
I have thoughtsbut I am not my thoughts. I amthe...
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May.06.2011
You’re always succeeding at creating something. The question is: what?
When people talk about becoming more creative, what they really mean is more consciously creative — better at creating more of what they want and less of what they don’t.
Becoming more creative is less about striving or effort...
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May.06.2011
Your words must wash my floor for love,I heard it all declare. I kissed my pen, swore this decree to air.Then set to work on bended knee, a childlike creep through house and street,to clean through what’s encrusted there.
It’s done for you, kind reader, dear,who walks my words across the...
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May.05.2011
1. What is Creative Intelligence?
We are all creating all the time — both consciously and unconsciously – but our understanding of how, and our confidence in the process, has been suppressed in us (see 6 & 7 below).
The concept of creative intelligence gives us a tool to understand and apply...
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About Orna
Orna Ross is a bestselling Irish author, living in London and founder of THE ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORS.