creativity

Take it on the Chin? Only if Warranted…What to Do with Criticism

It’s going to happen. If you are a writer who ever shares your writing, it will happen. You will receive either solicited or unsolicited criticism. What you do with that can either improve your writing or make it worse. What to do? Consider the source. Did you solicit this critique? If so, ask yourself whyContinue reading “Take it on the Chin? Only if Warranted…What to Do with Criticism”

Creative or Rule Follower?

My first conscious act of creating was in response to my elementary school principal’s command. She gave us a sheet of paper covered in circles and told us to come up with ONLY things that did not exist. I was in the fifth grade. This principal was the strongest woman I knew — she wasContinue reading “Creative or Rule Follower?”