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Unlocking Creativity Amid Trauma: Finding Inspiration on Your Hardest Days
By Kami Pehrson – “When life throws you in the mud, [you can choose to] plant yourself and grow.” – Dr. Christina Hibbert
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Healthy Habits for Creatives
Just as chapters are written one word, one sentence, and one paragraph at a time, your best self is created one healthy choice at a time.
Tomorrow I Will Write a Book
By Mariah K. Porter – When you make your art a priority in every sense, you will find yourself able to stop procrastinating and become more productive.
Passion and Persistence: Nurturing Creativity through Contemplation, Focus, and Endurance
By Joseph A. Browning – While the best artists appreciate steady hands, God works best with quiet minds.
Tips for the Creative Parent
By Tristi Pinkston – The Lord will bless your sincere desires to serve Him both as a parent and as a light to others by means of your art.
How LDSPMA Changed My Life—- and Can Change Yours
By Tyler Brian Nelson – In two short days at the 2019 LDSPMA Conference, I went from feeling like writing could be a hobby . . . to something that I could actually make into a career.
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The Power of Asking ‘Why?’: Improving the depth and credibility of your writing
By Howard Collette – Asking questions while researching your book (or preparing for a presentation, podcast, interview, etc.) will add depth and understanding to your work.
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Sometimes Things Do Work Out
By Steve Dunn Hanson – We can choose how any situation or circumstance we find ourselves in will ultimately affect us. We can literally shape the results of all our experiences.
Why We Should See Goals as the Means, Not the End
By Jeremy Madsen – The value of goals is not so much in achieving them, but in how the process of setting and striving for goals alters our behavior.
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I Can’t Even Get a Job at McDonald’s: Overcoming Impossibilities in Life and Writing
By Steve Dunn Hanson – Mentors in our life can inspire us to overcome all kinds of difficulties in writing and in life. One of my mentors reminded me that there are two kinds of choices a successful person makes: the right ones and the ones they make right. I saw this statement exemplified courageously by one of my dear friends.
5 Reasons You Should Read “Done!” by Don Aslett
By Jeremy Madsen – If you want to reach more of your goals, win the fight against your endless to-do lists, and make a greater impact on the world—I highly recommend Don Aslett’s book “Done!”
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7 Reasons Why You Should Try New Things
By Brittany Passmore – If you think [new] activities might distract you from whatever creative profession you’ve chosen, let me suggest that they’ll actually make you a better creator than a worse one. New experiences can be incredibly important for your professional and personal development, even if they have nothing to do with your creative work!
7 Character Traits of Creative People
By Trina Boice – Have you ever wondered what drives creative people? What makes them different? Hanging out with other LDSPMA members energizes me, inspires me, and encourages me to tap into my own creativity more! You can develop your own innate creativity by incorporating the following seven traits into your daily life.
The Arts as a Superpower
By Shaun Stahle – Those who tell stories help society get to know each other. Words and images and sounds are our superpower. The more we use our powers to tell the plight of another, the more we defuse the ugly and demeaning and debase that confronts us.
The Entrepreneur Mindset
By Mariah K. Porter – Creating and revising a product is only half the battle as an entrepreneur. The other half is marketing. In order to truly treat your business the way it deserves to be treated, you have to put in the work to get eyes on it.
Acting with Juice Boxes: Exploring Indian Breathing Techniques
By Brittany Passmore – I certainly don’t consider myself a professional actress by any means, but I cherish the memories I have from participating in school and community productions. Because we have so many talented and aspiring actors and actresses in our membership, I wanted to talk about a breathing technique I learned from my high school theatre teacher about rasa boxes.
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So You Want to Be an Artist? Here are 3 Secrets You Need to Know.
By Anna King – In this post, I’m going to let you in on the three most important secrets to being an artist.
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Trusting Your Teenage Writer: Three Tips to Avoid Overwriting
By LoriAnne Spear – Many of us novice writers overwrite in our insecure attempt to sound like a real writer. We use flowery language or big words so the reader will believe we’re legit. Instead, we produce overwrought writing and get in our own way.
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A Word for the Year
By Michelle McCullough – When I first started using a word of the year as part of my new-year planning, I will admit it was foreign to me. As a hard-core, goal-setting lass, I didn’t understand just having one word. I have learned over the years that it’s not an either-or option. You can have a word of the year and goals—and after starting this practice seven years ago, I have come to find that I really like having both.
A Single-Word Vision
By Lessa Harding – “Choose a single-word vision.” This idea, introduced to me in an LDSPMA workshop by Michelle McCullough, is simple enough that I don’t feel overwhelmed and profound enough to change the way I think about “becoming.”