Creativity
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Creativity
The four-step sketch contains each of these important elements. You’ll start with twenty minutes to “boot up” by taking notes on the goals, opportunities, and inspiration you’ve collected around the room. Then you’ll have another twenty minutes to write down rough ideas. Next, it’s time to limber up and explore alternative ideas with a rapid
... See moreJake Knapp • Sprint
get comfortable with feeling frustrated and keep going. It’s part of being an artist.
Lisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
In modern Western and Eastern cultures, creativity is now understood as deeply embedded in the fabric of daily life. From something that is exclusive to higher-level entities, whether deities or nature itself, it has evolved into an ability anyone can practice at various levels, whether it is to create art or to perform small acts of innovation as... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative aliveness: turning life into a creative adventure
It's a false binary to say “artists are messy” or to assume that those with well-organized and cleaned studios somehow aren’t doing creative work. We all come to our creative practice in our own way. A societally-induced value judgement on “clean” vs. “messy” has however lodged itself deep within us.
The Mess of a Creative Space
Take a walk or a drive. Book a window seat on a plane. Sit outside—in your backyard, on a park bench, at a café. Or make sure your writing desk (or reading chair) is next to a window with an appealing view. Take notes as you move through your day, or imagine what the speaker, narrator, or character might hear, smell, taste, or touch: the birds
... See moreMaggie Smith • Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Take two or three of those curiosities—the ideas that develop from the things you know and learn—and combine them to form a new concept. Don’t force it, but find existing overlaps and nooks and crannies that help them naturally fit together.