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Justine Musk
tribalwriter.com
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Because You're a Creative Badass
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the art of learning your shadow (+ how it makes you more creative)

“I believe the best way to examine anything is to go to a dark place. You can’t be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.” — Joss Whedon 1 Making friends with your shadow side could...

4 h ago

27 DOs + DON’Ts for being a badass woman

I was invited to participate in Productive Flourishing’s ongoing “core conversation” about female empowerment. Which got me thinking about what it means to be ‘empowered’...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

thinking on the edge: how “conceptual blending” makes you more creative

You can become someone to be reckoned with by developing your deep interests and fusing them into a Molotov cocktail. You could change the game that way. You can become not only the best at what you ...

17 may 12 1 person likes this

the art of combining opposites: Johnny Depp, the creative badass + the lover-warrior

1 Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. Keep fighting. Keep loving. I love this phrase. I saw it on a poster and then looked it up on the ‘Net, which says it originated as graffiti in Palesti...

12 may 12

how Joyce Carol Oates would launch a writing career today

1 A friend of mine was on a panel with Joyce Carol Oates. My friend is – as I am – a huge fan of JCO, so this was no small thing. My friend was there to discuss ‘self-esteem’; Oates was there to disc...

09 may 12 1 person likes this

authenticity rocks: how to radiate your way to success (as demo’d by Danielle LaPorte)

In an interview with Jonathan Fields, while “sing-songing her way through a longer answer to a question [he’d] posed about her success”, Danielle LaPorte said something intriguing: “I decided t...

05 may 12 1 person likes this

because you’re a creative badass

because you’re a creative badass because you’re an intellectual outlaw because you’re in the wisdom business because we are what we make because the world is your stomping ground be...

01 may 12 1 person likes this

lessons from chernobyl

1 I had the chance to go to Chernobyl, so I took it. When people found out about my destination, there came the inevitable jokes – because, you know, nothing is so hilarious as nuclear radioactivity....

30 apr 12

1 When Jen Louden invited me to join a group of bloggers riffing about creative joy, I couldn’t help thinking about how we have yet to put creativity — as a value, as a practice –at...

20 apr 12 1 person likes this

creative badass epic post: how to figure out your purpose/passion/j ust what the hell it is you want

Early in our relationship, when my boyfriend and I still considered ourselves frovers – a cross between friends and lovers, not boyfriend-girlfriend but more than friends with benefits (I was not a &...

15 apr 12 1 person likes this

Samantha Brick + the perils of pretty girl syndrome ( + Ashley Judd bitch-slaps the media)

1 When I read the “women hate me because I’m beautiful” article by Samantha Brick, I rolled my eyes. I couldn’t help it. Samantha seemed a victim of what I think of as Pretty Girl Syndrome, which inv...

10 apr 12

why the world needs more ambitious women ( + ambition is not a dirty word)

In January 2009, there was an article in the Harvard Business Review called “Women and the Vision Thing” comparing male and female leaders. To the researchers’ admitted surprise, “as a group, women o...

06 apr 12

the art of getting creatively unstuck (+ why you sometimes have to kill off your inner nice girl)

“When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” — Adrienne Rich 1 Sometimes you have to surrender. We all get stuck from time to time. If ...

30 mar 12 2 people like this

the art of outsider thinking (+ why it makes you more creative)

1 So I agreed to write a blog post for a company I respect on a topic that fascinates me. While fitting ideas together and outlining the post, I started thinking Who the hell am I to be writing on th...

24 mar 12 1 person likes this

the problem with slut-bashing (+ why we are all bad girls)

1 Many moons ago, I was having a drink with a male friend in New York when I told him this idea I still like to kick around. It’s for a nonfiction book. It would be a personal investigation of ...

17 mar 12

how to be an original: the magic of voice, the importance of relevance

1 I met President Clinton last week, at a cocktail party in the presidential suite in an ex-pat hotel in Haiti. Later, I was part of a group that had dinner with him, and the next day a small number ...

13 mar 12

how to change yourself and/or your life

There’s nothing you can’t do if you get the habits right. — Charles Duhigg 1 Things fall apart. On the day my ex-husband left a voice mail for my therapist telling her to tell me that he was fi...

11 mar 12 1 person likes this

the art of being fearless

1 If you’ve ever been legally deposed, you know it’s a brutal experience. The night before I was deposed for the third time out of five in a case that stretched on – and on – for over two years, I wa...

04 mar 12

how to turn your creative online platform into an art*

Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. What makes someone an artist? I don’t think i...

27 feb 12

things that smart women know

This morning I asked on Facebook and Twitter: What do smart women know? I distilled the answers into this post. Thank you to everyone who participated*. You are awesome sauce. Smart women know that p...

24 feb 12

Demi Moore, the limits of beauty + why Cleopatra was badass

1 I was skimming an article that claimed how the newly single Demi Moore has been partying with her daughter’s friends and chasing men half her age when I came across a quote from one of her alleged ...

21 feb 12

how to find the Big Meaning of your novel (+ blog) that will make your readers fall wildly in love ...

1 So I realized I was coming at my novel from the outside in. I’d created a complex storyworld with a cast of characters and tangled backstory shaping the frontstory. It was like I had the map, but c...

17 feb 12 1 person likes this

The ABCs of Self-Love: G is for Growth: how to find your life’s meaning. really.

This Blog Crawl of Self-Love is hosted by Molly Mahar of Stratejoy. She believes in the transformational power of radical self-care and so do I. Find out more about The ABC’s of Self Love Blog Crawl ...

12 feb 12 1 person likes this

how to be creative

Accept that you’ve got the creative urge and it’s never going to go away. Make friends with it. Drink some tequila if you need to. Commit to the process. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Unless of course ...

09 feb 12 1 person likes this

the art of becoming a (badass creative) thought leader

I used to watch Project Runway (back in the days when I still watched TV) and the judges would talk about whether or not the aspiring designers had a point of view. At the time, I didn’t get it. How ...

03 feb 12

badass creatives from around the web

Here’s some people who intrigue and inspire me. They might do the same for you. Natasha Wescoat Natasha’s bio describes her as a “self-taught artist who is a force of nature” and I believe it. She’s ...

03 feb 12 1 person likes this

the art of being an introvert creative (forced to cope with social media)

1 I’m giving a workshop on blogging/social media at the Southern California Writer’s Conference in San Diego in February. I asked people on Facebook if there were particular questions that I should a...

30 jan 12 1 person likes this

why Pinterest is totally not a waste of time: creating a visionboard for your creative project ( + ...

1 I joined Pinterest for one major reason. I am returning to my novel-in-progress THE DECADENTS after a couple months’ break from it and wanted to create a digital visionboard to help drive it to com...

22 jan 12

how to become your own rebellion

1 “I became my own rebellion,” writes Twyla Tharp in her book THE CREATIVE HABIT, and I have loved that phrase ever since I came across it a handful of years ago. She was talking about her decision t...

14 jan 12 1 person likes this

the art of letting your freak flag fly

White collar conservative flashin’ down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me. They all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high. — Jimi Hend...

10 jan 12

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