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Ignite Your Creativity~ add spark to your creative life! 

More and more people are becoming aware of the healing powers of creativity.  Human nature makes people want to strive to feel good, and keep their bodies free from illness and dysfunction.  Two goals most people hope for are to be creative and to improve/maintain health.  Taking our cue from physics, the first law of thermodynamics states that energy is neither created nor destroyed but is changed from one form into another. Expressing your creative energy means the energy within you is given an outlet; it is redirected into a more positive energy.  Everyone is inheritably born with the potential for creativity.  Drawing, painting, writing, acting, sculpting, knitting, dancing, cooking and playing an instrument are all creative activities that can ignite that creative spark.  Many people already embrace their creativity while others are in the realm of “I am just not creative”.  The key to being creative is taking action!

“Another word for creativity is courage”  ~ George Prince

Weekly Writing Spark~May 20th, 2013 || via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. ” 

~Joseph Campbell

What happens when your favourite character’s story completely changes? Does their perfect life begin to unravel or do their problems magically disappear? What do these changes do to their personalities, do they merely survive or thrive?

Get creative and have fun.

Quote of the Week via www.IgniteYourCreativity.net ~ May 17th, 2013

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigors of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people’s parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic and pompous; next the plain and simple; now the vales of Tempe; then the fields of Kent or Cornwall; and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.” 

~ Virginia Woolf

Wednesday Wallpaper for Writers ~ May 15th, 2013 via www.IgniteYourCreativity.net

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”
~Alain Robbe-Grillet

Creativity Affirmation Card ~ May 14th, 2013 ~via IgniteYourCreativity.net

No matter what creative challenges I face,
I know I can always work through them.

Weekly Writing Spark~May 13th, 2013 || via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.” ~John Steinbeck

One thing I have learned is that there is one constant in life and that is change. We all experience changes that occur by choice or by chance, they can be positive and enrich us, often, when thrust upon us; they knock us down and scare us to our core but ultimately, they change us by teaching us more about our strengths and ourselves.

Change can be difficult, but it is inevitable however, what matters the most, is how we face it. Are you in the midst of change? What positive lessons are rising to the surface? What would you like the outcome to be? What can you do to help yourself reach that outcome? How are you changing? Reflect and write.

 

Quote of the Week via www.IgniteYourCreativity.net ~ May 10th, 2013

“Out of the artist’s imagination, as out of nature’s inexhaustible well, pours one thing after another. The artist composes, writes, or paints just as he dreams, seizing whatever swims close to the net. This shimmering mess of loves and hates—fishing trips taken long ago with Uncle Ralph, a 1940 green Chevrolet, a war, a vague sense of what makes a novel, a symphony, a photograph—this is the clay the artist must shape into an object worthy of our attention; that is, our tears, our laughter, our thought.”

~John Gardner

Sunshine Award from the wonderful and talented Honoré Dupuis

As usual when catching up on my feeds I looked to see if there were new posts by Honoré Dupuis from his wonderful blog “Of Glass & Paper“. Reading his post ”Sunshine Award from a Master” I was thrilled to see that he had been a recipient of such a well deserved award. I was also surprised to see my name listed in his nominations among such wonderful bloggers as Rick Stassi, Leslie Moon, Louise Hastings, Mirabella, Jim Wright, Diana Lee, Ash N. Finn, Marny Copal and Romantic Dominant.

Honoré is such a wonderful person and talented writer it was a true honor that he chose me and I want to thank him for bestowing such a compliment, it is appreciated more than he knows.

As per the rules listed below, here are my answers for the Q & A questions…

Favorite Color: Since for many black isn’t a color I would have to say “Amethyst” …okay, okay “purple”. *sighs*

Favorite Animal: Dragonfly…okay, I know it’s an insect, not an animal..but rules were meant to be broken.

Favorite Number: “11″ ..not “666″ to many people’s surprise

Favorite Non-alcoholic Drink: Coffee…and for those who know me well, they are painfully aware that it is a necessity in my world…and theirs, which would explain the “666″ reference. *evil grin*

Facebook or Twitter: Tough choice, but I guess I am a Twitter girl…I like the challenge of trying to get a point across in a 140 characters or less… and for a long-winded gal like me…it can only be a positive.

Your Passion: Other than my wonderful husband Mike, I would have to say using my creativity, whether in written word or captured moment….or trying to make my cooking look way more appetizing than it will actually taste. LOL

Giving or getting presents: Giving for sure, unless it’s books…or coffee.

Favorite Day: November 5th

Favorite Flowers: Gerber Daisies

My nominations: Now to be serious… all of those I have chosen are wonderfully supportive and talented bloggers, writers, authors and/or artists who dedicate their time and skills to  pursue their craft and inspire others..

Rich Weatherly:Writer, author, poet, photographer and blogger.

Karen Einsel:Writer, author and blogger

Jenny Sosniak:Writer and blogger

Micheal Rivers:Writer and author

Eri Nelson:Wonder woman , author, publisher and blogger

Maryann Kempher:Writer, author and blogger

Carole DiTosti:Writer, author, poet and blogger

Damyanti Ghosh:Writer, author and blogger

Lora Fisher:Writer, photographer, curator, and artist

Glenn Starkey:Writer, author and blogger

Sheilagh Lee: Writer, author and blogger

If you want to join in the fun, and continue the process, the rules are to:

(1) Thank the person who gave you the award in your blog post.

(2) Complete the Q&A below in your blog post.

(3) Pass on the award to 10-12 deserving and inspiring bloggers, inform them and link to their blogs.

Wednesday Wallpaper for Writers ~ May 8th, 2013 via www.IgniteYourCreativity.net

“What is needed is,
in the end, simply this:
solitude, great inner solitude.
Going into yourself and
meeting no one for hours
on end–that is what you must
be able to attain.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Creativity Affirmation Card ~ May 7th, 2013 ~via IgniteYourCreativity.net

I am blessed with a creative mind.

Weekly Writing Spark~May 6th, 2013 || via IgniteYourCreativity.net

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” 

~Thomas Merton

Write about a time when you were completely lost in the moment. Was it creating a work of art, writing, reading, playing music or just being lost in a particular mood? Reflect and write!