I've just started reading Creative Writing: For People Who Can't Not Write by Kathryn Lindskoog. It's fairly interesting so far (in the twenty minutes I put in at lunch). I've got a story idea from a specific syndrome she talks about, an urge to go out and buy massive quantities of vitamin B6 to help remember my dreams even more clearly, a book I want to find, and several quotes I'd like to cross-stitch to something. I'll share just a wee snippet with you that I think is a lovely description both of creativity and of the way my own mind is wont to work (it also describes my sister...and several of my friends. Apparently the creative band together, eh?).
“John W. Gardner claims that highly creative people are not outlaws, but lawmakers. They are nonconformists in a special sense of the word. They allow their hunches and wild ideas to come to the surface, and they are willing to take risks, but in everyday life they usually conform to what is standard and look and act quite normal. Their independence shows up mainly in their ideas. There they are flexible, playful, and open. They live to discover relatedness and connect things that did not seem to be connected. ‘Every great creative performance since the initial one has been in some measure a bringing order out of chaos.’ ”
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