#right brained

[realrightbrained]

Circus Of The Galaxy

[whenigrowupiwanttobeapirate]

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please.

Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

[filmcourage]

(Watch the video interview on Youtube here)

Improving Screenwriting Skills With Creative Integration by Corey Mandell via FilmCourage.com.

Corey Mandell:  When I work with a writer I will train them through creative integration.  So what we do is make them write to their weakness and hide their strength.

So if I am right-handed and I my left hand is really uncoordinated, if I literally tie my right hand behind my back for a month and I do everything with my left hand, it’s going to get stronger and more coordinated.  Now during that month I might spill a lot of things and be very inefficient but over time I’ll develop my left arm and coordination and the strength, then I’ll learn how to integrate the two.

For a conceptual writer they will work exclusively from the intuitive part.  They will learn how to turn off the conceptual part.  The conceptual part has all these big ideas and worries about story a lot.  It has all these anxieties and judgment.  And you turn that off and teach them how to create from a pure, authentic, emotional space.  Now their writing may not be well-structured.  It might not be something they are going to show an agent but through that process their characters will come alive, their dialogue will come alive.  And one of the key things when (watch the video interview on Youtube here).

[bellarosepope]

Well, I’ve taken 4 right/left brained quizzes (for accuracy, of course) and all of them say I’m slightly more right-brained than I am left-brained. This is super cool to know - and also definitely makes sense - cuz CREATIVE AF.

And also, I’m right-handed. So that made the results even more surprising for me! lol 

[coastalecologist]

Me: Is a scientist and wants to be a scientist

Also me: Is unofficially a writer and wants to be an official writer

Also me: Wanted to be an artist as a kid, still wants to be an artist

[shufflebug360]

How to do anything creative:

Includes things like art, writing, songwriting, dance, drama etc.

You do it

Decide you hate it

So you do it again

Still hate it

You change/add something, that’ll help!

Somehow the thing is even worse than before..

Have a mental breakdown and be THIS CLOSE to giving up

BUT you start over.. this time with more glitter, moRE FaB, and MORE BOOM.

And CONGRATS YOU JUST FINISHED YOUR FIRST DRAFT!

[novemberwas]

Left-brained

When I chose to pursue

A career in science

My parents said,

“You’re left-brained.”

And just like that

They expected me to lose

My imagination

My creativity

The colors in my mind

I find it funny, actually

That people limit themselves

To one hemisphere or the other

It’s also ironic

That despite the degrees in biochemistry and genetics

I’m “right-brained” as hell

I don’t see why people have to choose

You can be imaginative

And intuitive

All at once

I will forever be

A hybrid

Somewhere between

Logical and creative

Numbers and colors

Doctor and poet