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Some good inspirational presentations and talks to get you thinking. Regularly update with new ones, and very topical, sometimes confronting.

Ths is a TED talk where Jason Fried talks about the importance of flow time, or time spent thinking/scheming. Thought it might help you guys.

That link looks dodgy to me. It might just be my iPad* playing silly buggers but in case it isn't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs&feature=youtube_gdata_player * Yes, Michael, I know: I should dump the evil empire... ;)

I loved this TED Radio Hour special on storytelling. It includes interviews and TED talks from a Pixar scriptwriter, the author of the historical reimagining The Girl with the Pearl Earring and a book cover artist. "Storytelling is joke-telling."

This is an example of one of the intensive writing events I was talking about. NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) is another.