• #FutureOfStorytelling,  #VirtualReality,  Creative Inspiration,  Creativity,  muse,  Nara Malone,  Nara's Nook

    Metaverse Muses: The Oracle

    A common meme passed from writer to writer is that you can’t wait on inspiration to write. Supposedly, you must plant your butt in the chair and bang out drivel until something useful shows up on the page. I don’t see that either waiting for inspiration or pouring out pages of glop to find the good stuff is terribly efficient.  One is a static method of waiting on the muse and the other active. It’s all waiting. Why can’t you just go out and hunt down the inspiration you need? Or, my preferred method, conjure inspiration from pixels. Not all of my muses look the same. I think I have…

  • binaural beats,  Choking,  Creativity,  deadlines,  stress,  Writing Life

    How Not to Choke Under Pressure

    Blogging over at PassionateReads.com today on how not to choke under pressure: What do you do when you gotta have some words, you gotta have them fast, gotta have them now? What do you do when you need to be able to visualize the greatest love scene of all time, but the ticking clock and the days crossed off on the calendar are the only thing you see when you close your eyes? Read more...

  • Captivating,  Creativity,  games,  Marketing,  Problem Solving,  Sunday Scribblings,  twitter

    Captivatingly Creative Marketing

    I had no idea what to write for today’s Sunday Scribblings prompt–captivating. I decided to sleep on it last night. I decided to let it keep simmering this morning while I got down to work on my WIP. I still didn’t have an idea when it was time to take a break for the morning run. It wasn’t until I was posting my word count for #amwriting on Twitter that my attention was captivated by a brilliantly creative marketing tool–a little game. Now I get paid to solve people’s computer problems, so I guess I was a prime target for an invitation to test my problem solving skills. I clicked…