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April, 2012
- PS London Book Fair Tickets Offer Sent Thursday, April 12, 2012 Oooops! Further to the last 'Launch' news email, thanks to Elizabeth Dalkeith for pointing out that there was ... ahem... no date on the London event. It's on Wednesday 18th, 10am to noon, further details on the Alliance website: www.allianceindependentauthors.org. I have some Book Fair tickets to offer at a great discount, via the Alliance, offering you three days of over 400 seminars and events, together with 1,500 international publishing and writing organisations and […]
February, 2012
- Poppy Z Brite’s Creative Intelligence Sent Friday, February 24, 2012 From Orna Ross. Latest at The Go Creative! Blog for Poppy Z Brite’s Creative Intelligence There comes a "point in every freelancer's life where he has to decide whether he wants to A, have a social life, and do art in his spare time, or B, do art,and have a social life in his spare time. "It has always seemed to me that if you have any hope of making [...] Read more... Orna Ross Website Facebook Twitter Books Author […]
- The Alliance of Independent Authors Sent Wednesday, February 22, 2012 From Orna Ross. Latest at The Go Creative! Blog for The Alliance of Independent Authors I'm so excited to tell you that the indie author's website I've been talking about is finally ready and taking members. The only global nonprofit association for the self-publishing writer has arrived. The brightest and most brilliant names in indie writer-publishing have come onboard as advisors. Handpicked for their knowledge and expertise, they will [...] Read […]
- Only in San Fransisco Sent Tuesday, February 14, 2012 From Orna Ross. Latest at The Go Creative! Blog for Only in San Fransisco I'm awake in the middle of the San Francisco night because my body is still on London time. No matter. As always, I'm over-the-moon delighted to be here. I'm staying at The Red Vic again. Founded by Sami Sunchild back in 1977, this BandB is quite a creation, with its imaginative guest-rooms, peace cafe and arts gallery, [...] Read more... Orna Ross Website […]
- Be What You Want Sent Saturday, February 11, 2012 fromOrna Ross The Go Creative! Blog for Be What You Want You must be the change that you want to see in the world, Mahatma Ghandi famously said. No logic in saying you want peace in the world, if you're engaged in violent protest, for example. Ghandi was an activist. Activists see more vividly than most what is wrong with the world, what they want to [...] Read more... Orna Ross Website Home Page Orna Ross Books After […]
- Latest News Sent Thursday, February 9, 2012 fromOrna Ross The Go Creative! Blog for Latest News From my most recent Author Interview: By Marese O'Sullivan for Writers.ie. "Orna Ross is a bestselling Irish author, now based in London, with novels, poems and nonfiction to her name. Her most recently published novel is After The Rising, a multi-generational murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War. Her much-anticipated sequel, 'Before the Fall', [...] Read more... […]
- I Want To Be Alone Sent Wednesday, February 1, 2012 from Orna Ross The Go Creative! Blog for I Want To Be Alone Ninety-nine per cent of education policymakers in the world think that creativity is about solving a problem or finding the correct answer. But that is a skewed understanding, says development psychologist Howard Gardner, whose book on multiple intelligences (1983) changed the field of intelligence studies. Taking alone time to reflect, experiment and frame answers is [...] Read more... […]
November, 2011
- Friday Fiction: I’m No Traitor Sent Friday, November 11, 2011 The Creative Intelligence Blog. Friday Fiction: I’m No Traitor 2011-11-11 12:21:55-05 AFTER THE RISING. EPISODE SIX: I'm No Traitor The story so far: Jo Devereux is back in Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up, for her mother’s funeral. In her will, her mother’s has bequeathed a pile of family papers and asked Jo to write about her family’s part in the Irish liberation […]
- Quantam Creativity Sent Thursday, November 10, 2011 The Creative Intelligence Blog. Quantam Creativity 2011-11-10 06:28:35-05 I'm thinking about creative and conventional views of reality this morning, as I'm reading Quantam (by Manjit Kumar). It's a great read, about the mind-blowing conundrums at the heart of modern physics and a very human look at the men who brought them to us. Lacking the mathematical language to grasp some of the […]
- Defining Creativity Sent Monday, November 7, 2011 The Creative Intelligence Blog. Defining Creativity 2011-11-07 02:59:35-05 An Answer to the Perennial Question: What Is Creativity? Creativity is vaporous, nebulous. It resists being quantified. It refuses access to those who try to own it, grasp it or chase it. Every creative wrestles with two inter-connected challenges. How to make a good life for ourselves. And how to capture our […]