In my blog post of 8 February 2011 I talked about the Creative Box and promised to explain a little more about it a little later. “A little later” has now arrived.
So. What is a creative box?
A creative box is a container of some sort in which you keep items intended to stimulate your creativity. It [...]
When it comes to brainstorming we’re encouraged to accept each and every idea. There should be no boundaries. No filter.
Sometimes, however, having no boundaries can itself cause us problems with BPS or Blank Page Syndrome. By constructing some simple boundaries we can corral our creative mind, saddle it up, and ride it along paths it might [...]
At the beginning of this series on creativity I asked if anyone had something specific they’d like covered, and you came back with some interesting problems. Here’s one.
Generally I know what I need a scene to achieve…[but] I blank on the first line of the scene – and if I can’t get that right the [...]
I don’t know about you, but one of the most difficult things I have to get over when it comes to attempting anything creative–or anything at all, if I’m honest–is my rampant perfectionism.
I really hate making a mistake. I want to walk up to something I’ve never attempted and do it right first time.
Actually, that’s not [...]
Although it’s not directly a creativity issue I wanted to share something from an email I got this morning. In essence it said: when people come to you for help they don’t want to have to do more work in order to reach a solution. They want the solution now. They want all the work [...]
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