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7 ways the letter H can help your creativity.
Not including horses, sorry fellas.
Limitations are one pathway to creativity.
Today’s limitation is seven concepts beginning with the letter H that can help creativity.
Hoarding
No, I’m not talking about filling your yard with rusting car bodies or your pantry with a hundred tins of beans.
Books and records are a good place to start. The digital equivalents are not the same from a creative perspective as the digital landscape mediates the content more.
Books and records are good as both source material and for lateral thinking.
A book on jewellery can be a great way of generating thoughts and directions about a character you’re developing. It’s also a book full of universal and interesting patterns.
If you’re building worlds with your writing, what is the world built out of? People. Fashion and Furniture. Animals and Art. Buildings and Landscapes. Music and Machines.
Books and records are also time machines, taking you to the time and space of their creation.
With a book, you know your not going to get the same image over and over again. Books by their very nature are linear and can easily be disrupted in a…
