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Mary Astell called out ‘bad custom’ centuries ahead of her time
Something to keep in mind when creating new cultures
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Advice to storytellers from me
Tell the story that needs to be told, in the way it needs to be told, to the length it needs to be told.
Don’t poison a story by insisting it must be an apple when it’s really an orange.
Don’t stunt a story by forcing it beyond its natural growth nor by forcing it to grow in a box too small.
“Genres” and “standard story lenghs” are publisher’s artefacts, not part of storytelling.
Breakthroughs don’t come through abiding by conventions and working in boxes.
How to increase creativity in your brain
This is how you train your brain to be more creative
They sound like good ideas to me!
Always write something different
Publishers hated A Wrinkle In Time. And Madeleine L’Engle never forgot the rejections.
What publishers like best is what’s already been done.
Nobody broke through by writing the same things everyone else has written. Don’t let publishers’ small minds limit you!
Networks of elements drive human creativity
Also asks if they stifle it.
A study by two business/economics professors, so it might be like blind men describing an elephant? Or are they confusing creativity with innovation?
Creativity not just for the young
For those creatives sentenced to the hell called “town”
Newly chartered CreativeMornings HNL to hold lecture series Hawaii – Pacific Business News
At least the first one sounds interesting. If starting way too early in the day!
To stoke creativity, crank out ideas and then step away — ScienceDaily
Brainwaves suppress obvious ideas to help us think more creatively
“The human brain needs to suppress obvious ideas in order to reach the most creative ones, according to scientists. These obvious associations are present in both convergent thinking (finding an ‘out-of-the-box’ solution) and also in divergent thinking (when individuals have to come up with several creative ideas).” (from their website)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181210150622.htm
