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Long Live Napoleon Solo

By Dan Balowon September 16, 2014
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The middle of September 1964 was one of the most historic periods in world history.  Rarely has humanity seen the kind of cultural shift that occurred fifty years ago this month.  Subsequent generations will never be the same. In one week, families, friends, fiends, fish and fun boat-rides changed forever, because fifty years ago this month, the following television programs premiered on U.S. television:

The Munsters

The Addams Family

Bewitched

Gilligans Island

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Flipper

Gomer Pyle, USMC

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Pause for a moment and reflect on how truly blessed the world was to have such amazing and important cultural gifts.

(Cue the musical theme from Jeopardy, which also premiered earlier in 1964.)

OK…that’s enough reflection.  After all, you don’t want to over-think the significance of this, and get a headache.

Today, let’s come up with ideas of what it takes to create something that lasts fifty years or more. Using the examples of the TV programs listed above, make some observations on the following question:

How do you create something today so that a random blogger will be writing about it fifty years from now?    

Today is your turn. Whether you saw some of these TV programs in their original black and white broadcast glory fifty years ago or last week in reruns or Roku, let’s see if you have any ideas what made them stick around for half a century!

By the way, I know why the Minnow crashed, stranding the passengers and crew…they had so much stuff packed into that little boat, there was no way it could remain stable in a storm!

 

 

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Creativity I Enjoy

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon August 7, 2014
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Last week, I promised to share with you how I am creative other than writing. Well, I don’t write much now except for this blog. If you see a “new” book with my name on it, at this point in time, it’s a repackage. I am grateful for repacks! I appreciate the creativity of my writers. I can’t think of a better career than being a literary agent! But as for my …

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Creativity

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon July 31, 2014
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We are so thrilled to have our family from overseas visiting with us this week. Our son-in-law brought us a gorgeous vase made by hand from a solid piece of Korean oak. His sister, Jung Im, took three months to fashion it, and modeled it on a vase from the Choson Dynasty. Although Jung Im is not a writer, her care and craft made me think of how writers are creative in many ways. Not only do …

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My Most Frequently Used Reference Book

By Steve Laubeon April 28, 2014
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by Steve Laube After pulling down this book from my shelf twice this past week I realized there is no other reference book I use more frequently. The book? The Synonym Finder by J.I. Rodale. I prefer it over Roget’s Thesaurus because it is laid out logically – in alphabetical order. There are multiple occasions where I need an alternative word to the one I’m trying to use. So I …

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Category: Book Review, Craft, Creativity, Personal, Reading, Steve, Writing CraftTag: Book Review, Craft, Creativity

A Forty Day Experiment with Music

By Steve Laubeon April 21, 2014
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by Steve Laube I tried something new this year. During the 40 days prior to Easter, also known as Lent, I chose to listen to one and only one CD while driving in my car. From March 5th to April 20th the only music playing was “Lent at Ephesus,” the #1 bestselling Classical Music album of the year. This means during that period I heard this music at least thirty times from start to …

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Open Your Eyes! There is Creativity Everywhere

By Karen Ballon March 19, 2014
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If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll have seen my recent pictures of the flowers that have been blooming like crazy in my yard. It happened so fast! One day the ground seemed dead and unyielding, the next green shoots popped up, and then… WHAM!https://youtu.be/-EbwAc8dkWI Flowers and flowering shrubs and trees burst forth with colors and buds and blossoms. Among the first to appear were the …

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Category: Creativity, Karen, Writing CraftTag: Creativity, Writing Craft

First Lines of Best-selling Books: How Many Can You Guess?

By Karen Ballon January 29, 2014
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It’s 71 degrees outside as I write this, the sun is shining for the first day in weeks, and there’s a gentle breeze tickling the suddenly budding tree branches outside my office window. As you can probably imagine, I’m having a LOT of trouble concentrating on work.  So I thought I’d share something fun with you.

I always wonder how much of the books we love actually stays with us. So let’s do a …

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Category: Book Proposals, Craft, Creativity, Karen, Writing CraftTag: Creativity, first lines

Real vs. Imaginary

By Dan Balowon October 29, 2013
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Simone Weil was being quite profound when she commented:
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.  Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
I can see the truth in those words in just about every book, TV program or movie. Anywhere a story is told, fictional villains or real heroes are the most interesting …

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Category: Art, Craft, Creativity, DanTag: Art, Craft, Creativity

Castor Oil for the Soul

By Dan Balowon October 22, 2013
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I am taking a big risk here, knowing there are authors and avid book readers looking at this post.

Columbia University Press polled hundreds of editors, writers, booksellers, librarians, literary critics, and general readers in order to produce a list of the ten most boring books of all time among the great classics. The winners were:

Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan
Faust, Goethe
Don …

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Fueling Creativity

By Karen Ballon September 18, 2013
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As many of you know, we just finished up the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. Almost 5 days of being surrounded by writers, agents, editors—people steeped in the business, work, and love of words. Each day overflowed with conversations about writing, from workshops to mealtimes to moments in the hallways sharing experiences and insights. And through it …

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Category: Conferences, Creativity, Karen, Writing CraftTag: Conferences, Creativity, Writing Craft
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