by Maxima Kahn | Feb 18, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
The process of revision or honing, polishing and shaping a work of art is one that often stumps creative people. Where to begin? How to go about making the work stronger, better, truer to itself? Will I ruin it in the process? What to cut, keep, add, change? Some time... 
by Maxima Kahn | Apr 16, 2020 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
. . .even when you’re busy or it feels really hard Last month I offered my patrons on Patreon the challenge to spend ten minutes a day making art. I took on the challenge too. Just ten minutes, but every day. I gave them a blank calendar for the month to track the... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 4, 2020 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
Dancing near the edge For over a month now I have been working on a poem called “Tango Near the Edge,” and in the end, it might not be any good. I am writing it in response to a very complex prompt I found in a book of difficult writing prompts called Challenges for... 
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 18, 2020 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk and reading by much-loved author Pam Houston and then took her writing workshop the next day. I came away inspired, with her latest memoir, Deep Creek, under my arm, and new tools to use and teach, but I was also troubled.... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jan 22, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
“Understand that you can have in your writing no qualities which you do not honestly entertain in yourself.” —Walt Whitman You Can’t Hide in Your Art An artist must take risks. An artist must be willing to be vulnerable in her art. But, being vulnerable does not come...
