“We
laymen have always been curious to know…from what source that strange being,
the creative writer, draws his material, and how he manages to make such
impression on us with it”—Freud, 1908.
is a highly recommended book for
those who want to learn how the magic wand of storytellers work. A compilation
of essays discussing the personalities of writers, the evolution of creative
writing, the creative process, the development of both the creative writer and
creative writing, and so on.
‘Creative
adults achieve effectiveness partially by force of personality. Talented adults
who achieve success posses many of the attributes listed below’, by Jane
Piirto:
“Creative
people are those who do creative acts. The creativity occurs in the becoming,
the making.”
“Many
studies have emphasized that successful creators in all domains have certain
personality attributes in common.
These
attributes make up the base of the model and rest on the foundation of genes.
Among these are the following: androgyny, creativity, imagination, insight,
intuition, introversion, naiveté or openness to experience, overexcitabilities,
motivation or passion for work in a domain, perceptiveness, preference for
complexity, resilience, risk taking, self-discipline, self-efficacy, tolerance
for ambiguity, and volition or will.”
‘The
more I write, the better I write, and the better I feel about myself’ by Adèle
Kohanyi
“Creativity
also affects mood and, in the case of writing, mostly positively. Indeed, a
wide variety of participants writing about a wide variety of topics have
demonstrated that writing has a positive effect on mood.
This
is not to say that any type of writing is beneficial. What appears to be
important is that the topic triggers an emotional reaction, positive or
negative.”
‘Who
are those guys?’—Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy
[Eminent screenwriters] by Steven R. Pritzker and David Jung McGarva.
“Donald
Ogden Stewart said in 1982 that a formal dinners one was seated according to
important at the box office. Writers, if invited at all, sat at the bottom of
the table, below the heads of publicity but above the hairdressers.”
“We
identified seven paths to becoming a screenwriter—journalism, play writing,
novel writing, television writing, film school and screenwriting as the only
profession, other show business occupations, and unrelated careers. The fact
that screenwriters come to the field from so many different types of work is
significant because, as Billy Wilder suggested, there may be a unique ability
to construct a screenplay that is impossible to predict based on the ability to
do other forms of writing.”
‘The
literary Genius of William Shakespeare’ by Dean Keith Simonton
“His
contemporary Ben Johnson said that Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all
time.”
He stood (and still stand) at the
apex of the top segment of the spiritual triangle.
“Writers
do not create in a bubble insulated from their personal lives or from the rest
of the world. If anything, writers are actually more open than nonwriters to
experiences and circumstances—events that often provide the content of their
work. This event—content relationship is amply demontrated in the 37 plays
attributed to William Shakespeare.”
‘In
search of the Writer’s Creative Process,’ by Todd Lubart
“A
particularly important aspect of text generation, according to Sharples, is the
primary generator, or guiding idea from which the rest of the text will be
developed. As William Faulkner put it, “With me a story usually begins with a
single idea or memory or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a
matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused
it to follow.”
“There
is probably no single ‘creative process’ that one can follow like a recipe to
be sure to produce a creative product. Indeed, probably a multitude of paths
can lead to a creative story (and an even greater number of paths can lead to a
noncreative production). It may be possible, however, to identify the optimal
process for a specific person to generate creative work given that individual’s
background and cognitive and personality profile, and taking into account that
person’s environment.”
*****
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