by Shawn Radcliffe | May 26, 2012 | Creativity, Meditation, Writing
In order to unleash your creative thinking with meditation, you first have to find stillness within your mind. By stripping away the layers that cloud your view, you can see the world more clearly. These obstructions come in many forms, such as rambling thoughts,...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 22, 2012 | Creativity, Meditation, Writing
In order to unleash your creative thinking with meditation, you first need to find stillness within your mind. This involves stripping away the layers of “noise” that cloud your view of the world—things like fear, anxiety, and rambling thoughts. As you get rid of...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 18, 2012 | Creativity, Meditation, Writing
At some point, all writers confront writer’s block. Many methods exist to help you unleash your creative thinking, some even created by published authors or famous writing teachers. These exercises for stimulating creative thinking can sometimes help you break free of...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 12, 2012 | Creativity, Writing
In college, I thought I could accomplish everything. And for a while, I did. With my youthful stamina—and copious amounts of Mtn Dew—I survived seven classes a term, on top of writing short stories for workshops, practicing trumpet and piano several hours a day,...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 8, 2012 | Creativity, Writing
Finding time to write is challenging. I squeeze words and sentences—and if I’m lucky, the occasional paragraph—into the spaces that occupy my day in between writing articles about science topics like yogurt and testicles, or dinosaurs farts, or the daily tasks of...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Apr 16, 2012 | Creativity, Writing
Creativity is the bread and butter of fiction writers. Well, that, and alcohol. Many great writers of the twentieth century struggled with alcohol, including Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, and Jack Kerouac. The prevalence of alcohol in writers’ lives is so strong...
