Video Lesson
Using Metaphors to Extract Ideas
Using Metaphors is a powerful way to extract your ideas.
Writing Tools
Writing Tools
SPLITTING THE ATOM: Dicipline Your Creative Senses
It is unnecessary to fall prey to this predictable dilemma. Suddenly feeling like you cannot create, has nothing to do with your talent or your ability, it is a foreseeable sequencing of irrational, and impersonal thoughts welded together by unearned authority over your mood and talent.
The Creative Path
The Courtroom of Your Creativity
When we want to produce a creative piece of art, a story, a film, it's easy to talk ourselves out of it.
Creative Process
Being too self-conscious & Alan Alda
This obstacle of being self-concious serves an obvious purpose, it's intention is to stop you from putting out bad stuff into the world. This is of course a layered obstacle, it is a realm of elements, because we are not talking about perfectionism.
Writing Blog
SCREENWRITING: Think in layers
You can think of your story in independent threads that work together. This is different from thinking in ACTS. We're moving beyond that, though this does not substitute it, it's meant to improve the ACTS approach.
Writing Blog
THE TWO METHODS OF CREATING
In this post, I wanted to touch on the two main approaches when it comes to creating your original idea. These two apply when you write, edit, and so on. You already know them as classic opposites, they are yin and yang, left brain vs. right, rationality vs. poetry, fast