If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
I have to learn to knit.
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.
I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.
As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.
I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.