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A twist in traits
The Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) is probably one of the most widely known personality type assessments. Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs developed it from theories recorded by the well know psychologist Carl Jung. Neither Myers … Continue reading
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Tagged creative personality, extraversion, five factor model, introversion, Meyers Briggs type inventory
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Creative Semantics
Early psychology was considered a science that dealt with the causes and treatment of mental illness. Famed psychologist such as Sigmund Freud worked with neurotic and psychotic patients. His theories of psychoanalysis and resulting model of mental structure were based … Continue reading
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Tagged creative ability, creative acheivement, five factor model, semantics
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Creative compared to whom?
In the twentieth century, experimental psychological shifted from the study of the mentally ill to research on the cognitive and personality development of basically normal people. Soon there was a plethora of theoretical models on the formation of personality, with … Continue reading
The edge of psychotic
Writing synopsis of creativity research has led me to realize how much my spelling has deteriorated. Mostly I rely on the word processor’s spell check, but sometimes it doesn’t recognize the scientific terms; other times it doesn’t recognize my vague … Continue reading
Why create art?
Recently I took a hiatus from an almost daily habit of spending an hour or so writing poetry or fiction. It wasn’t really intentional. Mistakenly, I saw the two weeks work shut down at the end of the year as … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Creative destruction, Creative writing, Creativity, Joseph Schumpeter
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Pointed view
Almost everyone knows about first person and third person narratives in writing. Basically as humans we all see from the familiar, limited first person point of view that allows us only to know what goes on in our presence. Much … Continue reading
Simply unreliable
Characters who have psychological profiles, also have their own viewpoint – opinions, judgments and prejudices – concerning the world around them. The first person narrator that is a viewpoint character – such as Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby – … Continue reading
Out of character
“It fits the perpetrator’s M.O.” … you’ve heard M.O. mentioned in so many police shows, detective novels, any kind of work related to law enforcement. What is it? A profile of a killer who has struck again collection constructed from … Continue reading
The character who saw too much
Writing from the first person point of view routinely goes through periods of popularity only to be followed by a flood of amateurish first person novels. Then, writing “gurus” will advice the beginning writer never to write in first person. … Continue reading
Posted in Story structure, Teaching writing skills, Writer's resource
Tagged hero, point of view, villain
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Physiological writing
What exactly are physiological reactions? Imagine you are a young teenage girl. You are waiting in the math hall, and that handsome senior with an air of indifferent confidence strolls past you on the way to calculus. Normally you are … Continue reading
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