'Unlocking creativity'

 

“Writingis a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, theeasier it becomes.” – Jane Green
Green, who lives in Connecticut, was born in London on this date in 1968 and has become one of the world's leading authors of commercialwomen's fiction, with millions of books in print and translations in over 25languages.  Her most recent bestseller is Sister Stardust.

A journalist by training, she workedas a feature writer for several London-based newspapers, including The Daily Mail, before turning to a successful and lucrative creative writing career in the late 1990s, now authoring some two dozen bestsellers. 
 Green made the move from journalistic to creative writing following an interesting regimen.  “I treated my books as a verylong journalistic exercise," she said.   "I just thought of every chapteras an article that needed to be finished (on a deadline).”         
Her journalism training also taught herthat writing is a job, and that you must write, whether you are inspired ornot.  “The only way to unlock creativity," she said, "is to write through it.”