Tag: creativity
Cringe at Your Old Work? Good.
From music to TV shows, I’m no stranger to nostalgia. I look back fondly at the...
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3 Toys I Wanted as a Kid (But Never Got)
Today is my birthday. I’m officially in my late 30s, though I could probably cling on to my...
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Sunday Snippet: Nick Offerman
I often espouse a general philosophy in my life of pursuing a discipline of one sort or another....
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6 Weird Things I Enjoy Doing
It’s one of those standard “ice breaker” type questions you might get in a job...
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The Tyranny of the Blank Canvas
There it is. The blank canvas. Filled with near infinite possibilities as you can turn that blank...
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Sunday Snippet: Evan Hadfield
Creative work, no matter how many times you do it, never really gets less intimidating at the...
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Writer’s Block Is a Myth
I’ve been writing professionally for 12 years. While I am nowhere near what you might even...
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Does the Greatest Art Come From a Place of Pain?
As Robin William’s character John Keating famously said in Dead Poets Society, “We...
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Introducing Hump Day Haikus
One of my greatest successes (and failures) of 2017 was keeping up with the weekly vlog. It served...
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Sunday Snippet: Jim Davis (Garfield)
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the...
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Sunday Snippet: Jim Carrey – I Needed Color
“What you do in life chooses you. You can choose not to do it. You can choose to try to do...
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Sunday Snippet: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Do not believe those who try to persuade you that composition is only a cold exercise of the...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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