How the Corporate Approach Made Creators Lazy – and Killed Mainstream Creativity
There is intense debate on the internet these days about the quality of storytelling and media that is available, especially in the mainstream. On the one hand, you have the generational argument: that everybody grows up thinking their generation’s music and movies are better than what the “young kids” are listening to nowadays. But on […]
The Fear and Insecurity of Writing
I’ve long been a proponent of freewriting. Freewriting is the act of setting a timer (or a word limit) and immediately writing whatever comes to mind down on the paper. No thinking, no editing. Just a stream of consciousness. Sometimes, you get interesting insights into your brain. Here’s what popped out on the page during […]
The Cost of Quality
As I was making dinner the other night, I could hear Christopher Lloyd in the other room, where my wife was sitting on the couch. He was not, however, yelling “GREAT SCOTT!” at everything, so it took me a second to figure out what she was watching. After checking on whatever it was that I […]
Exploring Creativity
All creativity should be exploratory. If we know what we’re doing completely, we’re not in the right place. – Jerry Seinfeld