Douglas Glenn Clark

Spark your "creativity practice" w/ a Book, Blog, or Song.
Find me @

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Is there anyone here who knows that a new documentary
about the BRILLIANT Canadian songwriter
Gordon Lightfoot
will be honored in March with a new documentary
about his legendary career?

GL is a poet. Though he states, not in the same category as KEATS.

#songwriter #guitar

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

WRITERS WANT TO FINISH
But sometimes we lose our way
Sometimes we lose our will

A False sense that we fail if we don't show "fast" "immediate" is harmful.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Can I be faulted

for wanting productivity

and inspiration to be the same

Every writing day

Every project?

#WeFinish #coffeeshopwriter #fiction #novel

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Do you talk to your work like it's a person?

I've started to do this.

What does this darn thing want to become?
What's it trying to tell me?
Sound strange? Kind of.
Until it works.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

The middle is the hardest part of any creative project.

It's supposed to be.

You haven't lost the thread — you're in the messy, necessary middle.

Keep going. Endings are made by people who don't stop there.

FINISH

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Paradox is my fave word:
Constraints free you.
Write a song with only 4 chords.
A story in exactly 100 words.
A poem with no adjectives.
Limits force ingenuity. Scarcity makes you inventive.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Not every day is an output day. Some days you're filling the well — reading, listening, living, noticing. Input is part of the work. Rest without guilt. The well has to be full before you draw from it.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Sounds silly, but ...
Change your physical position.
Write standing up, on the floor, outside, in a different room.
Inconvenience your typical habits.
Your body carries creative states. Moving it can break a stuck one.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Steal time in small pieces.
15 minutes before the house wakes up. A napkin in a café.
The notes app in a parking lot.
Great work isn't always made in long sessions. It's made in consistent ones.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Creative blocks are often emotional traffic jams, not skill failures.
Ask yourself: what am I afraid this work will say about me? Answering that question is usually the next sentence.
Allow resistance to come up, then release it

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Consume outside your genre.
Read poetry if you write fiction.
Watch foreign films if you write music.
The cross-pollination is where original ideas grow.
Feed your brain strange things.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Boredom is underrated.
The brain rewires in quiet.
Put the phone down.
Stare out the window.
Go for a walk with no podcast.
Let your mind wander somewhere your phone can't follow.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Your inner critic is loudest at the start.

It's not wisdom — it's noise.

Give yourself permission to write the bad version first. That much will silence the critic

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

The song you're afraid to write is usually the one that needs to exist.
That fear is a signal, not a stop sign.
Lean into the uncomfortable idea. That's where the real stuff lives.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Stuck? Don't wait for inspiration — give it a place to arrive. Open a blank page, set a timer for 10 minutes, write anything. Motion creates momentum. The muse shows up for people already at work. #creativity

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

"This is Lorelei" by Nate Amos.
Anybody listening?
Your thoughts ...

#indieRocker #covers

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Why is a simple song so moving?
Why does a simple line of prose stimulate you?

Sometimes I know I reach too high when right beneath my eyes, scribbled in ink, is something good.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Your "writing practice" is what keeps you going.
Not a dream
Not a big-time agent.
When no one is watching or when no one cares--
your writing practice keeps you relevant

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Great again?
Is greatness recurring?
America is a great idea in search of believers.

[Douglas Glenn Clark @authorDGC]

Wanna Be writers do not realize that even writing down how you feel -- in the moment -- is writing.

It is not a book. It is not screenplay -- yet.

But it might be the beginning of something big.