The Creative Habit
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Twyla Tharp
One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird.All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin...
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Author
Twyla Tharp
Pages
256
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2009-03-24
ISBN
1439106568 9781439106563
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"Finished 7/2024 - great resource for creating habits to inspire creative output"
Shannon League
"Twyla Thorpe provides a realistic glimpse of living a life fill with creativity. She emphasizes throughout, overtly and subtly, that creativity is not about being blessed with talent; it's about work, dedication, and a daily commitment to building your skills and respecting the process. I really appreciated that, unlike most biographies, she does not write with an underlying imperative that from birth creative talents are preordained for success. I also found helpful and interesting the examples she provided about how some artists have gotten their ideas."
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Jen Y
"I've read a lot of books on creativity and this is one of the better ones. I didn't do any of the exercises she suggests--some of them I already do, others just didn't particularly grab me as problem areas for me. A few did give me food for thought as I look at my own creative habits. <br/><br/>But for me the strength of this book isn't in the suggested exercises, it's in the text itself. Most of the other books on creativity that I've read were written by writers, and as a writer myself, I found the imagery very useful but also fairly familiar. Tharp is a choreographer, so most of her imagery comes out of the world of dance and music. This helped me look at things from a different perspective. She also made some different kinds of points than other books have made. This is now ranked as one of my top three books on creativity, alongside <i>The Artist's Way<\i> from Julia Cameron and <i>A Kick in the Seat of the Pants<\i> by Roger von Oech. I find the Tharp and Cameron books most useful for creativity in my personal life and the von Oech book most useful for creativity in my professional setting, although there's clearly overlap between the three."
Sandra Hasenauer
"So great for artists! "
Lana Whigham