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Train Your Brain to Create instead of Think (part 2)

Posted on December 7, 2010

By Matt Mott

Set small, specific goals like write a scene with a lamp, a dog, and blue sedan. Remember, education is about drills and jumping through hoops. Most of those hoops are going to be completely arbitrary, just like lifting a dumb-bell up and down is completely arbitrary, but arbitrary hoops provide practice, and you need to practice creativity to develop it as a skill. Editing comes later. Learn to just grow a story first. . . .

Train Your Brain to Create instead of Think (part 1)

Posted on December 2, 2010

By Matt Mott

You can’t teach someone to be a good writer per se, but you can teach people, or rather train people, to regularly access the creative side of their brain. You’d think this would come eventually as you write more and more stories (however failed those stories may be), but this is not always the case. . . .

On Sunday Nights the DEAD WILL WALK ... on AMC

Posted on November 23, 2010

By Matt Mott

Just because the likelihood of something being good is very low doesn’t mean you should look down on it. Every once in a while something comes along that combines sharp, smart composition with more-leaning-towards-straight-up-fun content, the result being a piece of art that just plain rocks! Case in point, The Walking Dead — a weekly late night series that you can catch on AMC Sunday nights.

Doing Away with the Slush Pile

Posted on August 26, 2010

By Gerard Beirne

Jim Hannah suggests killing off the slush pile and publishing work by solicitation only. What does our Fiction Co-Editor Gerard Beirne think?

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Non-Fiction

Train Your Brain to Create instead of Think (part 2)

Train Your Brain to Create instead of Think (part 1)

On Sunday Nights the DEAD WILL WALK ... on AMC

Doing Away with the Slush Pile

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