Brad Marley

Writing a guest blog, as I have come to find out, is a lot like writing a term paper.

• There's a specific topic.

• There's a due date that can be extended with some negotiation.

• The first time you do it is a daunting experience.

• You expect to only get better.

Kirsten Wright of Wright Creativity approached me a few weeks ago and asked if I could contribute a post to her blog on the topic of creativity.  I was happy to oblige.  How hard could it be?

As the days turned into weeks, and I begged and pleaded for an extension, I found out exactly how hard it could be.

This is the worst blog post I've ever written.

She has actual followers, which means people are going to read it.

Is it to late to delete my blog and erase any digital sign of myself? 

But I pressed on.  And maybe in what is a true sign of creativity, the blog post practically wrote itself.

It started out as a treatise on why public relations and creativity don't mix, and turned into a slightly different take on creativity.

Anyway, here it is.