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Hey Tammie, Jordan, G.E.G., Andrew, Joy…

Posted on April 22, 2014 | 2 comments

So last week I gave all 200 of you — my loyal blog followers — a reason and a place to fly your flag. And what did I get? Crickets chirping.

This goes out to Eli, Rachel (all three of you), Rachael (had to be different, didn’t you?), Andrew, Jordan, Jayde-Ashe, Ekaterina, G.E. Gallas, Tammie, Joy, and all the rest of you creative blog-rats:

In the comments below, regale us with tales of your creative output over the last 12 months.

Come on people! Strut the runway, take the podium, steal the spotlight, snatch the mic, streak the stadium, bomb the photo.

Tammie and Eli, tell us how many words you wrote. Joy, Andrew, tell us how many hours you spent training in martial arts. G.E., how many drawings have you done? Look, you might not get a chance to get on Letterman before he retires, so this is your chance to steal the spotlight for minute.

And….go!

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What’s your CQ? Tell the World Here!

Posted on April 15, 2014 | 1 comment

Sorry, trick question. There’s no such thing as a true “Creativity Quotient” that can be measured in the same way as IQ. But you can ask yourself what you’ve done in the last year or so that is truly creative.

What have you contributed to the flow of human creativity in the last 12 months?

Go ahead and brag. In the comments below, shamelessly show off, promote what you’ve done, and generally prance across the stage. We’re waiting!

What the heck, I’ll go first. In the last twelve months I have:

Finished the 83,000 word rough draft of The 14th Mansion, the third and final novel in the Montenegro Cycle — coming soon! — and earned a 4-out-of-five-star review for Ghilan on B&N
Started the PTDICE (c) website and marketed two new products
Completed a spiritual and artistic How-To Book involving 21 meditations and 21 acrylic paintings (currently being shopped to publishers)
Written 11 short stories totaling almost 40,000 words
Seen my eBooks get downloaded 2,504 times and reduced by body fat by 4%. Okay, neither of those is exactly creative, but since we’re bragging, I couldn’t help myself…

It’s easy for creative, driven people to get frustrated when their creativity doesn’t get much recognition and/or earn much cold hard cash. So go ahead, self-promote, get a little recognition. I’ll applaud you. I’ll be that one guy in the back of the room who claps.