Debunking Creative Myths
In the DIY MFA book (Chapter 6), Gabriela Periera debunks the following five myth about creativity: 1. Creativity is an exclusive club, and you can’t be a part of it. 2. Creativity is innate, you either have it or you don’t. 3. Creativity is driven by chaos, so there is no way to control it. 4. Creativity is all about getting that one “Big Idea.” 5. Creativity is focusing on an idea until it is perfect. While I recognize each of these myths, none of these seem to resonate with me. At least, none resonated with me at this point in my life. That is the good news. Of, course,…
What is Your Writer’s Kryptonite?
The question this week is ‘What is your writer’s kryptonite’? Since last week the question was is your writer’s superpower, I suppose this is a good time to talk about what works against that. Through Gabriella Pereira’s Writer’s Superpower quiz, I discovered that my superpower is Survivor, someone who overcomes adversity. Though I’ve always known what my kryptonite is, I still struggle to deal with it. In writing, the goal is to put your character up a tree and throw stones at them to see how they react. In fact, writers create trauma in their characters. And, if I am writing with a survivor superpower, then, in fact, I am…
IWSG: It’s Time for the Next Step
It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for another post for the Insecure Writers Support Group. The past month has been a struggle in all areas of my life, especially my writing. I think I’m trying too hard. I feel as if I have been going 100 miles an hour and finally crashed. I’m discovering there are a couple of things that make me crash. One is fear of failure and the other, fear of success. I don’t send my work out a lot but when I do it’s stressful, for me at least. I seem to wait and wait for the inevitable rejection. When it comes, my momentum…
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