by Avery White | Aug 30, 2016 | Challenges
“and when I say dope, I ain’t talking ’bout smokin, I’m talkin ’bout music that has an emotion” – NF I love rap. It’s music that bends language to its will and weaponizes poetry across the landscape of alliteration and rhyme. What makes...
by Avery White | Aug 23, 2016 | Spotlight
Banter. It’s quick. It’s clean. And it’s often followed up by a much longer sentence full of intellectual superiority. This type of dialogue is wonderful to listen to, hard to write, but rewarding when it translates. Let’s look at an example from Lauren Graham and...
by Avery White | Aug 16, 2016 | Challenges
Last week I talked about creative anxiety and how it’s mitigated by shifting our focus to the process instead of the outcome (click here if you missed it). This week, I want to continue that theme of process, and tie another idea to it in the form of a challenge. Our...
by Avery White | Aug 9, 2016 | Training
Let’s go on a quest. We begin at aholyexperience.com (Ann Voskamp’s site – aka my favorite author-who-just-announced-a-new-book!) where I read this: Be entirely engaged in the process of your work, and be entirely disengaged in the outcome of your work. –...
by Avery White | Aug 2, 2016 | Challenges
I love chocolate cake. Really. In fact, I love chocolate cake so much that I went through the trouble to learn how to make myself a decent one (and how to modify the recipe so my wife can eat it too; she can’t have dairy). And it’s the best in the world....
by Avery White | Jul 12, 2016 | Meta
The trick is to be the sort of blogger that doesn’t use art, but that joins forces with it. I want people to engage with what is written as well as what is visual. I want people to not just glean from a blog post, but from the art that helps it. I want people to...
by Katelan Frisbie | Jul 5, 2016 | Challenges
Dear Human, Truly dear, because you are. What you are about to explore is the heart of someone who has come alive and how that has been such a process. It is still an ongoing process but here is a snapshot of what has happened in my life through an art that is most...
by Avery White | Jun 28, 2016 | Spotlight
“Can you see?” Someone from the Brazos Valley Arts Council whispers, noticing I’m in the back on tip-toe trying to glimpse beauty. I tell her no. She ushers me clear past the first gallery and into the room where Christy Cisneros is talking about her work. I...
by Avery White | Jun 21, 2016 | Challenges
“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.” – Ann Voskamp Art Changes the Artist I started writing another short story this weekend. It’s for someone I barely know. My protagonist is wildly different from me, and...
by Hannah Hilgendorf | Jun 14, 2016 | Training
Third Person Creative is absolutely thrilled to have artist and illustrator Hannah Hilgendorf share her work with us today! The images you are about to see are all her own. You can support her by purchasing some of her work here. Placing Yourself In A Setting Of...
