Our brain is like the hedge maze from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Too easily we can wander the twists and turns of our thoughts and then get utterly lost. Yet as we age, our brains do some amazing things — they prune away neural connections. A baby, in fact, has more neural connections than an adult brain, but is often helpless because of a plethora of choices. Only by pruning, can we make these connections faster. You can use the technique of habit stacking to increase your writing time but capitalizing on the brain’s ability for synaptic pruning.
Tag: creation
The Care and Feeding of Your Muse (How to Cultivate your Creative Side)
We all yearn for that flash of inspiration that pilots us through the next difficult chapter or short story. Yet our Muse is not the kind of creature to clock in at a regular schedule. Nor will it perform on an empty stomach. The care and feeding of your muse is essential if you want to cultivate your creative side.
AI Will Liberate the Artist
Artificial intelligence has many artists and writers running for cover. We fear that this simple algorithm will spell the end of our abilities to create. Yet, if we flip the situation around, AI will liberate the artists, allowing them to freely explore.
Map Your Thoughts onto Paper to Boost Creativity and Memory
Our brains only have a limited amount of thinking space. Researchers have discovered that sketching allows you to map your thoughts onto paper.
Make Creative Mistakes and Seek Your Own True North
We learn early in life that the results are more important than the process. But the reverse is more correct.
Creativity is Like Pulling Teeth: 6 Ideas to Write Your First Draft
If you never get started, your ideas will only exist in your head. You need to start somewhere. Here are six ideas to write your first draft.
Be Ruthlessly Creative with Your Art like Prince
The Artist Prince created so many finished songs, there’s a bank vault in his home dedicated to preserving them.
5-4-3-2-1 Method for Sensory Details in Writing
Writers, do you sometimes get so wrapped up in dialogue or action beats that you neglect some good, solid sensory description? Try a technique of grounding used to help sufferers of anxiety.
Architect vs Gardener Plotting for Writers
Do you write more with your head or your heart? That’s the dividing point between Architect writers and Gardener writers.
Use Layers in Your Writing to Meld Spontaneity and Planning
Often us writers want to create a perfect chapter right out of the gate. But this just isn’t practical.
