The creative habit : learn it and use it for life : a practical guide
- Responsibility
- Twyla Tharp, with Mark Reiter
- Imprint
- New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2003
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (vii, 243 pages) : illustrations
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Tharp, Twyla
- Contributor
- Reiter, Mark
- ProQuest (Firm)
Contents/Summary
- Contents
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- I walk into a white room
- Rituals of preparation
- Your creative DNA
- Harness your memory
- Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
- Scratching
- Accidents will happen
- Spine
- Skill
- Ruts and grooves
- An "A" in failure
- The long run
- Publisher's summary
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What makes someone creative? How does someone face the empty page, the empty stage and making something where nothing existed before? Not just a dilemma for the artist, it is something everyone faces everyday. What will I cook that isn't boring? How can I make that memo persuasive? What sales pitch will increase the order, get me the job, lock in that bonus? These too, are creative acts, and they all share a common need: proper preparation. For Twyla Tharp, creativity is no mystery; it's the product of hard work and preparation, of knowing one's aims and one's subject, of learning from approaches taken in the past. It's a process undertaken every day. It's a habit. The Creative Habit is not merely a look inside the mind of a remarkable woman with remarkable skills, but a programmatic, inspiring, encouraging guide to help each of us achieve our fullest creative potential.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2003
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web
- ISBN
- 9781439106563 (electronic bk.)
- 1439106568 (electronic bk.)
- 0743235266
- 9780743235266
- 9780743235273
- 0743235274
