How to Be a Writer Part 2

The subject of creativity is surrounded by so much mystery and there is so much advice out there about how to be creative that it is easy to get overwhelmed by the whole question. Too often people fall into the following traps:

a) They conclude that their favourite rock star, painter, author or other artist has unlocked the way to creativity and so decide that they must be like that person in order to be truly creative.

b) They imagine that there is some connection between insanity or depravity and creativity and so go off the rails in life in an effort to be more creative.

c) They conclude that they are not creative and that the secret of creativity belongs to some kind of mysterious elite but can never be theirs.