If you want to be more creative, the first thing you need to know is the formula for creativity. Here it is. . .
C = M.S.U.
Creativity = Making Stuff Up
That’s it! You just make stuff up . . . right out of thin air.
Want an example?
How J. K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter
My boyfriend was moving to
It was during the train journey back from
I have never felt such a huge rush of excitement.
I knew immediately that this was going to be such fun to write. . . . I didn’t know then that it was going to be a book for children – I just knew that I had this boy, Harry.
During that journey I also discovered Ron, Nearly Headless Nick, Hagrid, and Peeves. But with the idea of my life careering round my head, I didn’t have a pen that worked!
And I never went anywhere without a pen and a notebook.
So, rather than trying to write it, I had to think it. And I think that was a very good thing.
I was besieged by a mass of detail and if it didn’t survive that journey, it probably wasn’t worth remembering.
-- Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowling
Source: Success edited by J. Pincott, published by Random House Reference
One more thing . . . NO ONE HAS MORE CREATIVE POTENTIAL THAN YOU BECAUSE NO ONE HAS MORE THIN AIR THAN YOU!
Absolutely, positively, guaranteed!
Rob Gilbert
