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CREATE! Developing Your Creative Process
You might have this question: Am I creative?
The answer is an unequivocal yes - creativity is part of the prize pack you receive for being born human - which means there are better questions to ask. CREATE! will help you discover:
What is creativity, exactly?
In what ways am I creative?
How can I be more creative?
What is my own personal creative process?
If I could be more creative, what would it mean for my personal life and career?
CREATE! is a six-step guide to developing your individual creativity, a roadmap tested and enthusiastically endorsed by hundreds of workshop participants, from those who already defined themselves as creative to those who didn't (yet).
The answer is an unequivocal yes - creativity is part of the prize pack you receive for being born human - which means there are better questions to ask. CREATE! will help you discover:
What is creativity, exactly?
In what ways am I creative?
How can I be more creative?
What is my own personal creative process?
If I could be more creative, what would it mean for my personal life and career?
CREATE! is a six-step guide to developing your individual creativity, a roadmap tested and enthusiastically endorsed by hundreds of workshop participants, from those who already defined themselves as creative to those who didn't (yet).
278 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2020
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About the author
Cathy Pickens
23 books63 followersCrime writer Cathy Pickens started her writing life as a mystery novelist. The first of five mysteries in the Southern Fried series won St. Martin’s Award for Best New Traditional Mystery.
Her fascination with the power of real crime stories led to a series for History Press, starting with Charleston Mysteries and Charlotte True Crime Stories.
She is a frequent mystery convention panelist, speaking on topics ranging from Southern mysteries to classic true crime stories to the use of poisons. At various times and under various aliases, she’s been a trial attorney specializing in complex civil litigation; a university provost; a business school professor (at Queens University of Charlotte); a church organist and choir director; and a ballroom and clog dance coach.
She has served as national president of Sisters in Crime, on the national board of Mystery Writers of America, and a founding board member of the regional Forensic Medicine Program.
Based on her book CREATE! Develop Your Creative Process, she offers workshops on developing the creative process. She also coaches and teaches new writers through Charlotte Lit, and works with former inmates and those in rehab on starting their own businesses and writing their own stories.
Her fascination with the power of real crime stories led to a series for History Press, starting with Charleston Mysteries and Charlotte True Crime Stories.
She is a frequent mystery convention panelist, speaking on topics ranging from Southern mysteries to classic true crime stories to the use of poisons. At various times and under various aliases, she’s been a trial attorney specializing in complex civil litigation; a university provost; a business school professor (at Queens University of Charlotte); a church organist and choir director; and a ballroom and clog dance coach.
She has served as national president of Sisters in Crime, on the national board of Mystery Writers of America, and a founding board member of the regional Forensic Medicine Program.
Based on her book CREATE! Develop Your Creative Process, she offers workshops on developing the creative process. She also coaches and teaches new writers through Charlotte Lit, and works with former inmates and those in rehab on starting their own businesses and writing their own stories.
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February 9, 2023
I found this book so helpful in organizing my writing life. The philosophy underlying the book is that if we want to create, we can. We just need a process. And Pickens supplies that process. The path she outlines will work. Whatever our dream project is. I read the book along with The Artist's Way. They work beautifully in tandem.
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