Comments on: How Limits Boost Creativity http://stickyebooks.com/2010/02/08/how-limits-boost-creativity/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:38:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Three eBook Maladies and their Cures | Sticky eBooks http://stickyebooks.com/2010/02/08/how-limits-boost-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Three eBook Maladies and their Cures | Sticky eBooks Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:34:13 +0000 http://stickyebooks.com/?p=259#comment-57 [...] imagine my surprise when I set the goal of completing my eBook in a month, only to come down with a colorful selection of eBook-eating maladies. Here are some treatments [...] [...] imagine my surprise when I set the goal of completing my eBook in a month, only to come down with a colorful selection of eBook-eating maladies. Here are some treatments [...]

]]> By: Mike Korner http://stickyebooks.com/2010/02/08/how-limits-boost-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Mike Korner Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:58:24 +0000 http://stickyebooks.com/?p=259#comment-24 Great topic Kelly!. I think your point about limitations is a good one. It's amazing how powerful constrained words can be. Example: The power of the words on a single bumper sticker, billboard, t-shirt, headline, or Twitter message. The space constraint forces the creator to leave out the fluff. Without constraints, we get things like the 125 page ebook I saw last week. A good editor would have busted it into two 25 page ebooks in no time :) To your point about our brain and hands being connected, I think that's why it works when a writer with "writer's block" just starts typing something word for word. Once the fingers get going, it isn't long before the brain jumps in and starts changing the words. From there, just get out of its way :) Great topic Kelly!. I think your point about limitations is a good one. It’s amazing how powerful constrained words can be. Example: The power of the words on a single bumper sticker, billboard, t-shirt, headline, or Twitter message. The space constraint forces the creator to leave out the fluff.
Without constraints, we get things like the 125 page ebook I saw last week. A good editor would have busted it into two 25 page ebooks in no time :)

To your point about our brain and hands being connected, I think that’s why it works when a writer with “writer’s block” just starts typing something word for word. Once the fingers get going, it isn’t long before the brain jumps in and starts changing the words. From there, just get out of its way :)

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