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Why Creativity's a Habit and Everyone Can Learn It
Choreographer and Broadway hitmaker Twyla Tharp tells us how.
Is this summer the time to pen your best-selling book? A lawyer, editor, scientist and other career women tell how they found time to write – and how they got published.
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Why Creativity's a Habit and Everyone Can Learn It
Choreographer and Broadway hitmaker Twyla Tharp tells us how.
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A Bridge to the Next Day. The only bad thing about having a good creative day is that one good day does not necessarily beget another. There are ways to increase the chances of successive successes, though.
Ernest Hemingway had the nifty trick of always calling it a day at a point when he knew what came next. He built himself a bridge to the next day. I always quit for the day when there's still some energy left in the room and I know where we would have gone if we hadn't stopped. A writer I know has a fixed nighttime routine: Just before he falls asleep, he reads the last few sentences he wrote. Without fail, he wakes up the next morning brimming with ideas, sentences, whole paragraphs to continue his story. You may find your own ways of bridging to tomorrow if only you look for them.
Excerpted from The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. Copyright © 2003 by W.A.T. Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. This article originally appeared in NRTA Live & Learn, Winter 2006.
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