Today's blog takes a look at the craft of creativity. "Creativity has a craft?" you say... Why, yes, I believe it does. | Recent Updates:
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When I say "craft," what I mean is a hands-on, pragmatic series of steps or rules or tools that lead to a certain product--in this case, fiction. For example, you've heard about (and we've talked about) the craft of writing.
Well today's goal is creative thinking, which is important to creative writing because--well, they both use the word "creative."
Specifically, we're trying to come up with story premises! This, for many, is either the easiest or the hardest of tasks, but it is arguably essential to creative writing (free writing doesn't count yet, but we'll get to that). I have some foundational principles to talk about as well as some neat resources for you to look at.
So grab your feathery quill pens and your bottles of magic ink, cuz it's time for the Electric Didact!
Well today's goal is creative thinking, which is important to creative writing because--well, they both use the word "creative."
Specifically, we're trying to come up with story premises! This, for many, is either the easiest or the hardest of tasks, but it is arguably essential to creative writing (free writing doesn't count yet, but we'll get to that). I have some foundational principles to talk about as well as some neat resources for you to look at.
So grab your feathery quill pens and your bottles of magic ink, cuz it's time for the Electric Didact!