Creativity Boosters for Writers
Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry, for publication or for pleasure, these suggestions will boost your creativity on and off the page.
Creativity
Ideas and resources for understanding and increasing creativity
On Falling Behind, Failing, and Progress
Writer Annie Murphy Paul writes in “How We Make Progress” that rather than a staircase model of learning, in which we steadily climb step after step to the top, a more apt metaphor may be waves on a beach, “where one wave overtakes another and then pulls back, overtaken in turn by another advancing and …
The Creative Life and Opportunity Cost
Every choice we make has an opportunity cost. That simple idea, first explained to me by my son, has had a lasting impact. It doesn’t always mean that I make the wisest choice in the moment, but I certainly have made some more thoughtful choices as a result. What is opportunity cost? Every choice we make has …
Do you stop too soon in the creative process?
What if everyone has severe doubts in the creative process, and the only difference between those who finish and those who don’t is that they plow through their negative feelings, treating them as perhaps not just a nuisance, but necessary?
Cross-Pollinate for Creativity
The inGenius Book Club: Cross-Pollination “Connecting unexpected people, places, objects, and ideas provides a huge boost to your imagination.” ~ Tina Seelig Chapter Two of inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity discusses the important role of cross-pollination in creativity: like a bee, moving from flower to flower, trailing pollen everywhere we go, borrowing from one idea to …