The Zen of Creativity

The Zen of Creativity

by Kerri Williams

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. You can’t try to do things, you simply must do. – Ray Bradbury

Thinking is the enemy. Who would have thought?

I have to agree with Bradbury’s statement. Creatives do have a knack for doing. It’s not necessarily that we want to; we have to. It hangs out at the edge of our subconscious, ghost-like, a lost spirit.

I’ve personally been stuck in this must do thing for several months now. I’m a writer and I’ve spent the last year writing articles on creativity. It goes well. I don’t think about it; I just do it.

I also write fiction. I’ve spent the last year avoiding the novel. But I’ve been spending a great deal of time thinking about it. Oh, I’ve tried several times over the past year to work it out, to get the story on paper, but no matter what I did, it didn’t.   READ MORE

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