What Does ‘Creative Authenticity’ Mean?
What does it mean to live and work in alignment with your authentic creative nature? What even defines creative authenticity?
What does it mean to live and work in alignment with your authentic creative nature? What even defines creative authenticity?
Kaleidoscopic Creativity is combining different creative practices, patterns, processes and tools in order to create a rich, infinitely detailed, ever changing and always astoundingly beautiful creative life.
Creative super nova, David Bowie was a walking lesson in how to be original. And he was a total imitator.
Creativity is an infinite resource, and the more we use, the more we have.
Yet, paradoxically, creativity also requires replenishment. It drains out of us the more we use it.
Writing rituals are little habitual behaviours that writers establish to help get them in the mindset for their writing sessions.
Observing life’s minutia is a critical skill for writers, and noticing auspicious signs is a fun way of taking in the fine details of the world around us.
What even is is your most authentic creative nature? And how do you find it? Are you living it already? Or is there some hidden nature inside you you’re denying? How do you even know?
Ideas in themselves aren’t particularly valuable. It’s what we make of them that matters. Different writers have different methods for turning inspiration into results and actual writing. Here are a selection of them.
Immerse yourself in the genre you’re writing in. This fills you with ideas and helps you study genre tropes, figuring out what works, what doesn’t and why.