Studying Creativity

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Several months ago, I responded to a request for writers to participate in a research project on creativity. (https://ninc.com/community/special-projects/case-western-creativity-process-study/) Last week, I had a 90-minute Zoom session with Kaleigh, a PhD student from Case Western studying the creative process. She asked me to speak out loud while I wrote.

 

I'm working on editing Book 2 of the Adventure USA series. It's called MASSACHUSETTS! The Stolen Spyglass. I wasn't sure how speaking out loud while I worked would be helpful, but I was more than willing to try. I quickly discovered that speaking about what I was thinking was immensely helpful.

 

Somehow, it fast-tracked the creative process. I had wanted to enrich Lizzie's emotional life in this book and had some ideas but hadn't really decided how to do it. As I spoke, I wrote, and in so doing, I found another whole aspect of Lizzie that I could easily incorporate into the story and make it so much richer.

 

I'll definitely make use of this technique in the future.

 

 

 

 

A blue monarch at the butterfly exhibit at the Franklin Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio.