by John Lacey on August 2, 2010
Where do ideas and art come from anyway? It’s all well and good to talk about ‘artistic process’ in an abstract fashion but it really is all about doing something – anything – and then doing something else. Progress in process is all in the doing.
by John Lacey on June 8, 2010
Earlier this week my Amazon shipment arrived including The Right To Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into The Writing Life by Julia Cameron. I haven’t had a chance to delve deeply into the book, however I wanted to share an extract here since it follows on so nicely from this week’s Creative Concepts podcast.
by John Lacey on January 27, 2010
I sometimes get disappointed when something I produce doesn’t get much of a reception. You hope that a project is worthwhile and that somebody somewhere is getting something out of it, and as much as I look for some intrinsic merit to the things I do, I am still sometimes left wondering.
But what if no one caring was actually a good thing?
by John Lacey on December 21, 2009
St Ninian’s Primary School in Stirling, Scotland, introduced a “Writing For Real” program.