The Scintilla Method
A four-step plan to build a thriving creative life
Build Your Habitat
Create a habitat for your goals within your physical space and your weekly routine. Given them the food, water, and shelter they need to thrive.
Flash Fiction with Friends: Sad Bananas
Here's a great way to sharpen your writing skills, hang out with friends, and boost your creativity all at the same time - it's called Flash Fiction with Friends! The game works like this: you and your friends each have 30 minutes to write a story from a randomly...
5 Things Co-Authors Need to Know
How You and Your Co-author Can Work Together Effectively Working with a co-author provides opportunities that working alone can never match. There's twice the energy and the inspiration. Your partner provides built-in accountability. You can even converse in...
Creative Writing on WordPress
How a Career Writer used Wordpress to Find Her Voice We at The Spare Room Project are proud to release our second artist interview feature, and this one's for writers. Courtney's writing blends prose and poetry to explore themes of life, love, Godliness, and optimism....
Keep out poachers
Some things have a right to your time, space, and attention. Other things are trespassing, and they will hunt your creativity to extinction if you let them. Know the difference and enforce it.
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Push the snowball
Live and work within your habitat by setting incremental goals and building on your successes.
Multiclassing in Everything: How to Make the Worst Character in D&D 5E
“What are you playing tonight?” my party asked as I set a bulging tote bag on the table. “A Barbarian,” I said, smiling. “So what’s the ukulele for?” Dungeons & Dragons’ Fifth Edition made multiclassing much easier than previous editions. Too easy, in fact. One...
How to Write a Song: Some Practical Advice
Accomplishing a creative challenge like writing 14 songs in 28 days doesn’t happen out of nothing. I’ve needed some advice and some inspiration over the last few weeks of February Album Writing Month. Here are three resources that taught me a lot about how to write...
Go Take Pictures: What to do on a Photo Excursion
One of the simplest and most elusive truths about a creative lifestyle is that artists are the people who create art. Paul Simon summed up his decades of creative experience in his song "Hurricane Eye": "You want to be a writer, but you don't know how or when? Find...
Recycle
Grow your future projects in the rich loam of your past failures and successes. Be intentional about the entire life cycle of a project, from idea to closure.
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