I am writing a new book about the creative process Many of my readers may not know that I have been writing a book about the creative process. It’s an idea I have chewed on and studied for several years. What is my progress? As of today, I have written a manuscript of about 60,000 words and am in the third draft of edits. My new book has a working title, too: MIND BLOWN: Bridging science and magic to unlock your creative genius. How does creativity actually work? I am curious. How does creativity work? How can we get better at it? A lot of books give us habits and systems to follow. I hope to explain well what I have found under the hood–the engine behind creativity! It is about bridges, connecting between opposing things. I have distilled it into three steps: The Dream, The Sandbox, and The Story. The Three Steps: The Dream, The Sandbox, and The Story The Dream is about discovery and idea generation. So how do we find ideas, and how can we get more and better ones? The first thing we do is dream. But, my book will explain underneath this a bit of how the …
How does the creative process work?
written by Rich Kirkpatrick 2 minutes read