[SCA-BMDL] A&S Night Thank Yous

[Jennifer Strobel]

I would like to thank the following folks for coming to the workshop last
night:

Saskia van Ouwater
Cai or Llyn
Michael Alewright
Todd of Cour d'Or
Melodia,
Cadell Blaidd du
Shaune
John
Blausa Korsakova
Greg
Clement de Warrewyk
Helewyse Spynnere

I hope that you all learned something, and as promised, here are some
additional resources for you to use in order to spark your creativity when
you want or need it to happen:

Brainstorm.  Let your mind wander and kick out as many possibilities as it
possibly can.  Not every idea in a brainstorming session is going to be a
winner, but you may find a thread of an idea that you can use to begin
building more solid ideas on.

Create a discipline.  Take 15 minutes of every day to do whatever it is
that you do.  Writers - write, Painters - paint, Musicians - music!  That
15 minutes will give you the ability to go through and force your brain
into a creative mode on a daily basis.  Even if all you do is go over
something you're in the process of already doing, it's 15 minutes that you
brain knows that it's "time to be creative" which can help when you need
it to do so at a moment's notice.

Subscribe to mailing lists, periodicals, etc. that relate to your creative
field.  Seeing what other people are doing, and having people with similar
interests gives you a pool of individuals that can help you move forward
when you're stuck through either direct suggestion, or providing
inspiration from what they are doing.

Find a website like http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/ that has
a number of creativity techniques and find out what inspires you.

There will be more information in the Althing on this subject, so that we
can all learn a bit more about this.

Odriana vander Brugghe

Reference
Baumgartner, J. (2003) 10 steps for boosting creativity. Retrieved from
http://www.jpb.com/creative/creative.php on February 7, 2006.


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