Susan K. Perry's Blog: Creating in Flow, page 16
July 12, 2014
Creativity Rocks When You Walk
If empirical studies move you, I mean really move you to get up and get moving, then recent experiments may sway you. It’s been found that walking may lead to more creativity. Plus some ideas to keep daily walks from boring you.
July 9, 2014
Fiction That's Truer Than Life
Three new novels explore some eternal questions with page-turning flair: What is a family? What does it mean to be human? What’s worth fighting for? How many of us have felt we don’t quite fit in, and wonder if it’s the way we were raised or a common human condition?
July 7, 2014
Will You Recognize Your Soul Mate?
For a relationship to be a long-term success, you need to go beyond the most common and superficial ways of “getting to know you.”
July 2, 2014
Writing About Lust, Honestly
Writer Diana Raab digs deep to get at the emotion let loose by love, lust, and some threatening medical calamities, too.
June 27, 2014
Why We Don't Talk About Sex
It’s difficult to talk about your sexual desires, even—or especially—to your lover. Here are some hints about hinting.
The Joy (and Panic) of Sex Talk
It’s difficult to talk about your sexual desires, even—or especially—to your lover. Here are some hints about hinting.
June 20, 2014
Why You Stare at Beautiful Things
Beauty. It’s in the eye of the beholder. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Thousands of such superficial and contradictory sayings claim to explain what beauty is. Without taking anything away from the experience of beauty, experts have now gone more deeply into aesthetics.
June 13, 2014
What Makes Men Weep?
Tears are often an emotional response to psychic pain. But imagined pain can do it too. So what makes men cry? Or, speaking of poetry, what kind tugs their heartstrings?
June 11, 2014
Rubber Duckies and Your Story
To write an engaging story, you have to tap into some very basic human cravings. If your story doesn’t capture your fellows’ imagination in a really deep way, it won’t keep them from falling asleep around the campfire—or the TV set.
Rubber Duckies and Other Compelling Aspects of Story
To write an engaging story, you have to tap into some very basic human cravings. If your story doesn’t capture your fellows’ imagination in a really deep way, it won’t keep them from falling asleep around the campfire—or the TV set.
Creating in Flow
Insights, advice, interviews: All about writing and other creative activities.
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