Hi. I'm John. Thank you for visiting.

This is a blog about the creative process. It features anecdotes and links and other glimpses into the act of creating things.

Creativity is beautiful and blinding and painful and the most human thing we do. Let's look at it some more. It matters.

Things I otherwise write or have written:
A book.
Items in many anthologies.
Plays of varying lengths.
Video games.
Commercials.
Radio stories on a broad range of topics for various national public radio programs.
Assorted blogs.
A Twitter feed (@johnmoe).
Book reviews.

Other creative things I've done:
Hosted public radio shows of the national and local varieties.
Sung in rock bands.
Acted in many stage plays and commercials.
Ran an electronic greeting cards site, poorly.
Edited Amazon.com's toy store site.
Parented.

I've also worked as a file clerk for a law firm that represented Exxon in the Valdez spill.

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16th February 2010

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Getting it unblocked

25 professional creative folks describe how to get it moving.

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Don’t all sit in a meeting and somehow expect that something will pop into your collective conscious. Don’t read the design press, don’t go to google images or youtube. Don’t force it – get out of the studio. Go to the theatre, go to gigs, go to museums, take time off work, go for a walk, stop looking at your computer, turn off your mobile and the tv, Have a chat with your mates about something meaningful.

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