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On the Differences Between Creativity and Productivity
Writer and critic Yanyi on the realities of leaving your day job, the complicated relationship between being creative and being truly productive, and the value of sometimes changing your mind.
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New study confirms some of the neurophysiological predictors of creativity
Two brain networks appear to play a key role in creativity, according to new research published in the journal NeuroImage. The findings confirm past research that suggested increased cooperation between brain regions linked to both cognitive control and spontaneous processes is associated with heightened creative ability.
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On Learning, Listening, and Always Moving Forward
Podcaster, writer, and musician boice-Terrel Allen on how starting a podcast changed his life, not letting fear get in your way, and what can be learned by listening to other people’s stories.
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How To Break Through Barriers To Creativity
Although it feels lonely to struggle with creative inspiration, you're not alone. Check out ideas from three inspirational role models.
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How To Venture Beyond Your Comfort Zone
The Obstacle Is the Way
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The Working Solution to the ‘Starving Artist’ Problem
You don’t have to change your art to make money.
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How to Tell a Great Story
Storytelling is everywhere. Whether you write a book, record a podcast, make a presentation, or create a Medium post, the ability to tell a story, and to grab a person’s attention is critical. Yet, so many people don’t know how to write and tell a story in an engaging manner.
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What Shakespeare Actually Did During the Plague
Day 14: The muse strikes! If Cordelia and the Fool never appear in the same scene, that new apprentice can play both of them. Save one actor’s wages, times six performances—can you say “new doublet and hose”?
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Study finds cocaine enhances creativity, but not as much as drug users believe
New evidence suggests that cocaine enhances creativity, but only in certain instances.
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The most important part of the learning process
When it comes to learning anything new, we almost every time go through the same process of learning. Even though there are a few different directions for our learning process, the final step is always crucial. In short, we start from a reason which can be connected to an expectation or a vision. Then comes the effort required for learning and it involves the speed of learning and the ability to keep learning however painful it may be.
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Majority of authors 'hear' their characters speak, finds study
Some writers have always claimed they can hear their characters speaking, with Enid Blyton suggesting she could “watch and hear everything” and Alice Walker describing how her characters would “come for a visit ... and talk”. But a new study has shown this uncanny experience is very widespread, with almost two-thirds of authors reporting that they hear their characters’ voices while they work.
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Why Do So Many Physicists Write Crime Novels?
You say you want to be a crime writer? Ever thought of studying physics? I’m serious. While many automatically think of an English degree as the gateway to literary success, it’s also true that science-savvy novelists have excelled in every genre. Think of Primo Levi and E.L. Koingsburg, both chemists, Vladimir Nabokov, who was an entomologist and lepidopterist, mathematician Lewis Carroll, and contemporary authors Lisa Genova, a neuroscientist, or physicist Alan Lightman.
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Using complexity to discover true novelty
Is it possible to distance one-self from endless levels of bias in order to create something entirely new? In other words: can we come up with an idea (concept, story, philosophy, art or anything, really) that is not directly derived from a similar already existing structure?
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The Last Ones – best drama screenplay at the Los Angeles Film Awards
Another client of THGM Writing Services strikes gold. C.D. Peterson's WWII-era screenplay The Last Ones wins "Best Drama Screenplay" at the Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA).It's always exciting wh
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Why the next brilliant artist may turn out to be a machine.
They are impressive, perhaps even inspiring, but can artworks created by computers be considered as art?
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The Artists’ Rebellion
I have this fantasy where the artists go on strike. I dream that one by one, in their own quiet ways, the artists, the writers, the musicians, the comedians, the graphic designers, the marketing gu…
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Tips for Writing Award-Winning Children’s Fiction: An Interview with C.R. Stewart
As part of our commitment to recognizing literary excellence, the San Diego Book Awards Association is proud to publish a series of seven author interviews conducted to demystify what it takes to be the best in your genre.
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'
Young authors may be self-censoring because they worry they will be "trolled" or "cancelled", according to celebrated writer Sir Kazuo Ishiguro. Sir Kazuo, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, warned that a "climate of fear" was preventing some people from writing what they want.
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Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person's creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when walking.
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Writing on Paper Is Much Better for Your Memory Than Writing on Your Phone
I don’t even remember the last time I tried to memorize a phone number.
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