Clearly, if you are reading this and interested in writing erotica (or just writing) and have ideas about things you would like to write about, you have a creative personality.
Science has discovered everyone and anyone can be creative. Creativity has nothing to do with IQ. We all have creative elements in our personality.
Psychology has delineated eight characteristics shared by most creative, problem-solving people. Amazingly enough, all these personality traits are cultivable skills anyone can develop.
According to creativity maven Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, former Chair of the University Of Chicago Psychology Department, his research revealed that creative people possess the following paradoxical matchings of traits. They are:
1. Smart yet naive
2. Playful yet disciplined
3. Imaginative yet realistic
4. Extroverted yet introverted
5. Humble yet proud
6. Passionate yet objective
7. Iconoclastic yet traditional
8. Experiencers of both intense pleasure and intense pain
9. In touch with their female side and their male side
These nine characteristics are the key personality components that engender creativity. As a writer you likely recognize a majority of these in your own personality.
Csikszentmihalyi’s research also suggested it is possible for people with creative personalities to increase these elements, and hence increase their own native creativity,
If there are times when you are stuck on plot, scenes or character actions and reactions, if there are times when you run out of ideas, or have ideas you can’t seem to make gel, you might give the three exercises that follow a try. These exercises can help you develop the nine qualities listed above and make you a more creative person than you may have dreamed you could be. They will not only help you solve problems with plot, structure, and characters but will enhance the creative side of your personality.
CREATIVE PERSONALITY EXERCISES
1. FROM MENTAL ZERO TO 60 IN SIXTY SECONDS
People often say, it’s a hopeless. My mind has gone completely blank. I can’t think of a thing. They want to know how to get their brain in gear, when it is worn-out, clouded, or simply won’t start.
The following three step strategy was developed for my workshops. No matter how blank your mind feels, it is guaranteed to catapult your brain from Zero to Sixty in half-a minute or less.
Step 1: Eliminate mental static.
Step 2: Focus on the problem.
Step 3: Ask yourself the following pairs of questions:
1. Ask yourself, what are the key issues?
2. Ask yourself, what seems most trivial?
3. Ask yourself, what aspects of it you feel positive about?
4. Ask yourself, what aspects of it you feel negative about?
5. Ask yourself, what seems to be the biggest obstacle?
6. Ask yourself, what seems to be the smallest obstacle?
7. Ask yourself, what aspects seem most confusing?
8. Ask yourself, what seems clearest?
9. Ask yourself, if there is any important fact you have a nagging question about?
10. Ask yourself, what facts you are most certain of?
11. Ask yourself, what’s the best result you can imagine?
12. Ask yourself, what’s the worst?
By the time most people are even part way down this list, their minds have caught fire and they are already generating ideas, possibilities, and solutions. When it’s my turn again to share the blog we’ll begin to delve deeper into the mindset and examine color schemes of creativity and how child’s play can really bring out the creative person in you.
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