Writing – Page 16 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Reading eBooks on a Tablet Comfortably in Bed (also: watching movies)

2014-01-11

I tried out the -- so far -- most relaxing way of reading books (and watching movies) -- lying on the back in bed with the screen hovering a few inches above you. Simple and very, very practical.
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Quickly Open a Text File to Jot Down Creative Ideas with Spotlight and Automator

2013-12-22

You can use a keyboard shortcut to quickly open a specific file to jot down your ideas. Here's how.
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Moleskine Books!

2013-12-10

Stumbled upon a service that allows you to create Moleskine notebooks with custom content (image left).
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Software cannot replace an author, but it can assist an author tremendously

2013-11-30

Using computer technology is writing is strangely underdeveloped. In many cases, you could replace the keyboard with a quilt. However, technology can massively support writing and make it possible in the first place. Here are some examples and links to relevant postings.
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There is no perfect text — ever.

2013-11-30

In writing, don't strive for perfection. It is not possible, for a simple but probably not obvious reason. Read this article if your perfectionism stops you from writing -- or submitting.
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Paper!

2013-11-26

Is it better to work with, esp. to learn and to create, than digital media? Some possible differences.
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Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Speech

2013-11-25

One of the best storytellers giving a commencement speech. Yeah.
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Scientific Community #4 — Concluding Remarks

2013-11-23

Summary and three crucial issues when it comes to (correctly) seeing science as social endeavor.
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Scientific Community #3 — Analyzing the Literature to find out more about the Community

2013-11-22

If you want to get into a scientific community without having a supervisor or colleague helping you along, you're pretty much screwed. But there are some things you can do.
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Scientific Community #2 — Getting Into the Community the Right Way

2013-11-21

Tips on getting into the scientific community include some things about yourself, your presentation, supervisors, conferences and more.
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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

Get the book (yup, free to download :-))

The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.