We make commitments. We break commitments. There are times when it feels impossible for us to keep our word to ourselves. The question is, “What do we do after we break our commitment?” Years ago when I was in the early days of a fast I took a bunch of seedless green grapes and started [...]

Creative success takes years to manifest and is happening now. I read an ad by a writer who is looking for someone to edit his work and find representation for a book he has written. I imagined a prolific writer who had not found worldly success reaching for an ally to help create a better [...]

I heard the poet Maya Angelou and then Stew & Heidi Rodewald of the indie group, “The Negro Problem,” say the same thing last week which I took as a theme to explore. They all said, say yes to the creative project and then figure out how to do it. Say yes then do it. [...]

Imagine getting home and finding an elephant sprawled out in the middle of your living room. It would be almost impossible to ignore. Even if your day had been memorable in a negative way you would be unable to ignore an elephant in the house. We can take the elephant approach to having creative success. [...]

It is easy to claim that we have made a commitment to our creativity. It is easy to pretend that we didn’t make a commitment if there is no public declaration of it; there is wiggle room. The public commitment can be made to a person or we can write it down and put it [...]

My conversation with the singer, songwriter, musician, MC had gotten to the point where she was telling me that her job in the music industry with a big name producer was going well but she wasn’t making any music. We agreed that having a job in your creative field was better than having a bad [...]

I got my creative marching orders. I was re-watching the first season of, “Treme,” because I had missed a few episodes of the show and was also toying with the idea of blogging about the series. So I’m sitting in the living room watching the first or second episode when I get a flash of [...]

I didn’t know if I was going to write a post today. The commitment to writing one-post-per-week for a year had been fulfilled. “Do I continue writing?” There is always a moment of limbo after the completion of any creative commitment. I had forgotten about that. My experience with this part of the creative process [...]

It has been a year since I started this blog, The Creative Space; well kinda. I actually took a year or more to get a website going, and then I started writing posts only to stop for some still unknown reason. My turning point was when I got the idea to write at least one [...]

Did not feel like writing tonight. Don’t have any topics burning to be discussed. Actually feeling a little weird and off-kilter. My creative juices are there but simmering or something. Figured I would just start writing and that my muse would kick in, take over and run the show. My muse(s) have their own sense [...]