Tag Archives: Creativity

Dealing with Painful Critiques

Posted on October 19, 2025 by knlistman

Educators often do not recognize their most creative students. I witnessed examples of this behavior as teachers described which poems they preferred in an anthology written by students. The cheerful rhyming poems were often considered better than those dealing with … Continue reading →

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My Boring Little Life

Posted on November 7, 2024 by knlistman

What dark secrets can I dredge up to reveal that occured during hours of deliberating about the plot? If I promised to tell the audience the deepest secrets of my life and lived up to my promise, they would be … Continue reading →

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How Creative Do You Want to Be?

Posted on June 13, 2024 by knlistman

What can creativity do? Provide me with insight into yet to be imagined stories, allow me to develop amusing ways to express unpopular opinions, fill up my time when I am bored, or fritter away my precious time when I … Continue reading →

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Writing with a Divided Mind

Posted on November 2, 2023 by knlistman

In the 1930’s, an Oberlin College English major named Roger W. Sperry worked at a campus cafe and provided transportation for a physically disabled psychology professor. Sitting in on luncheons and meetings among eminent psychologists introduced him to a new … Continue reading →

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The “Art” of Writing

Posted on September 1, 2022 by knlistman

A “one shot” print occurs when an artist creates a plate for an intaglio print by engraving or etching, and then pulls a trial print so good that it requires no alteration to improve it before making the final prints. … Continue reading →

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The edge of psychotic

Posted on January 1, 2014 by knlistman

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 →

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Why create art?

Posted on December 31, 2013 by knlistman

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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The case for the case

Posted on July 29, 2013 by knlistman

Portfolio – a portable case for holding papers – a simple name for a collection of works into which a person has poured hours of deliberation and sweat. Today the portfolio is just as likely to be stored on a … Continue reading →

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Elaboration: the hardest part of creative writing

Posted on July 27, 2013 by knlistman

Elaboration is the process of presenting and developing an idea, by adding more detail to  explain the exterior situation so that the reader gains privileged access to interior thoughts of authors. Forming creativity into a product that someone else can … Continue reading →

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The ogre of orginality

Posted on July 26, 2013 by knlistman

The creative writer combines originality, complexity, independence of judgment, and aesthetic sensitivity according to the research of Frank Barron, who was known for his in-depth studies of the creative mind. His subjects often took extremely complex elements to produce a … Continue reading →

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