Creativity

Left brain vs. right brain for writers

by Laura Connell on August 11, 2010

Research has identified two types of people, those whose left-brain is dominant and those were the right-brain dominates. The dominant left-brain is ‘content’ oriented, while someone with right-brain dominance will be ‘process’ oriented. Left brain dominance: Logical Sequential Rational Analytical Objective Looks at parts Right brain dominance: Random Intuitive Holistic Synthesising Subjective Looks at wholes [...]

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Writing tips, creativity myths and ideology

by Matthew Stibbe on March 5, 2009

goodcopybadcopy. I like Clare Lynch’s obsessive attention to detail and the regular series on ‘Words that should be banned’ (including impact and facilitate. I vote for solution.) Daily Writing Tips. There’s an interesting debate on how long a paragraph should be.  (My opinion: as long as necessary but not a word longer.) 15 Widespread Creativity [...]

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Writing tools: MindManager 8

by Matthew Stibbe on February 23, 2009

Mind mapping is an effective tool for brainstorming. I regularly use a mind map on large piece of paper to think through the structure of a large piece of writing. The problem with paper-based mind maps is that once written they are hard to modify. It would be nice to be able to rearrange the [...]

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