Tag: Creativity

Imagination and the Unconscious: The Neuroscience of Creativity

This is the next installment in my series on Fiction as Art. The other night, my writing workshop instructor handed out a reading assignment on crafting dialogue. Ho-Hum, I thought, I know how to write dialogue. But buried near the end of this article came a golden little nugget that blew me away. Paraphrasing the …
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Honoring Creativity: Discerning The Angels And Demons Of Writing Advice

I’ve spent the past five years exploring the publishing industry from different angles: as an MFA student, as an associate literary agent, as an editor. I’ve been a writer for a lot longer than that, and my first book, Breathing through Buttonholes, was published in 2003. But the writer I was back then looks nothing like …
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