Best Book On Creative Writing

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Sometimes creativity can be sparked with with a creative writing book.

For example, some people wear a white lab coat or a particular pair of glasses, or always work in a specific place — in doing these things, they are professionalizing their art. But whatever happens, any writer will tell you: This is the best part.

The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. These rewards manifest not as grand honors and prizes and bestseller rankings — though hardly any writer would deny the warming pleasure of those, however fleeting — but in the cumulative journey of becoming.

[…] Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep your mind engaged with your project.

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful.

Prolific novelist Isabel Allende shares in Kurt Vonnegut’s insistence on rooting storytelling in personal experience and writes: I need to tell a story. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later. But I don’t find myself thinking, “I can’t write about that because it won’t sell.” It’s such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can’t imagine writing one if I’m not interested in the subject.

And disappointed — because I have a sort of idea that isn’t really an idea. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up. Emotionally, it puts you in the place that everybody dreads. You can’t give in to your natural impulse to run away from situations and people you don’t know. When it’s working and the rhythm’s there, it does feel like magic to me. There’s no hole inside me to fill or anything like that, but once I started doing it, I couldn’t imagine wanting to do anything else for a living.

Rubin writes: You’re much more likely to spot surprising relationships and to see fresh connections among ideas, if your mind is constantly humming with issues related to your work.

When I’m deep in a project, everything I experience seems to relate to it in a way that’s absolutely exhilarating. That’s critical, because I have a voracious need for material, and as I become hyperaware of potential fodder, ideas pour in.