#creativity

There was this little voice whispering to me that the book was really good, and if I didn’t finish, I would regret it forever.

Don’t come up with the plot of your story, says Stephen King.

I find it surprisingly easy to whistle a new tune.

As you will have noticed, the essays on this site are all titled “how to X”, but are not guides as much as blog entries. “How to” is just a rhetorical device, an invitation to approach a subject.

The first song of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi is hard to describe.

Does the brain control you, or are you controlling the brain? I don’t know if I’m in charge of mine.