It's easy to think our beautiful creations are a waste of time, but they're not.
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What a Design Class Taught Me About Creativity
How a design class for quilters taught me an important lesson regarding advice-giving.
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Embrace These Creative Stumbling Blocks In Order To Finish
Back in 1999, I took a quilting class with Ruth B. McDowell to learn how to design pictorial pieced quilts. At the time, I was struggling to find a way to make representational quilts without using applique. While I learned what I hoped to in her class, making the quilt I designed taught me some... Continue Reading →
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Waiting for Inspiration: A Bad Idea
We want our creative work to be fast and easy. Inspiration is the word we use for the magical shortcut. But is it worth the wait?
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The Unknown Rules to Novel Writing
I finished NaNoWriMo in record time this year. I had written 50,000 words by November 23rd and finished my story on November 24th. I had five days to do other things at the end of the month, and one of the things I did was look back over November to figure out why my novel... Continue Reading →
