By: Adrian Smith You just finished a major scene in your story. You’ve read it over a few times and feel pretty satisfied. The story, to this point, is everything you imagined it would read like—but you’re not sure…
Research shows that a busy coffee shop is the best place to spark creativity
By: Jocelyn Schwalm Coffee shops have long been considered a second home to creative types everywhere, but fundamental aspects that make a coffee shop a coffee shop are now changing. Like cafés, they are quintessential “third spaces” of the…
Science proves that everyone can be creative. Here’s how.
BY: SWIKAR OLI Solving a problem creatively demands the sort of non-linear thinking that frees us from everyday, familiar reasoning. This is the crucial step to creative problem-solving that’s perhaps the most hard for people to overcome when trying to…
How Hesse’s Steppenwolf and Descartes helped me get over writer’s block
BY: ADRIAN SMITH I hadn’t been able to write in a while. I mean, I could write meaningful blurbs in quick stints, but I couldn’t sit there like I sat last fall, writing short stories in three or four long,…