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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Guide (Descripteur de forme) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tharp, Twyla. Creative habit. New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2003 (OCoLC)607017005 |
Named Person: | Twyla Tharp |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Twyla Tharp; Mark Reiter |
ISBN: | 0743235266 9780743235266 9780743235273 0743235274 |
OCLC Number: | 52587546 |
Awards: | Commended for Books for a Better Life (Motivational) 2003 |
Description: | vii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | I walk into a white room -- Rituals of preparation -- Your creative DNA -- Harness your memory -- Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box -- Scratching -- Accidents will happen -- Spine -- Skill -- Ruts and grooves -- An "A" in failure -- The long run. |
Responsibility: | Twyla Tharp, with Mark Reiter. |
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On pointe at the keyboard
Writing Down the Bones (Goldberg), One Writers' Beginnings (Welty), On Writing (King), A Sense of Place (Crews) are each of them treasured for holding my hand & guiding me along in the world of writing. To my personal pantheon I add a book from a dancer of legendary skill &...
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Writing Down the Bones (Goldberg), One Writers' Beginnings (Welty), On Writing (King), A Sense of Place (Crews) are each of them treasured for holding my hand & guiding me along in the world of writing. To my personal pantheon I add a book from a dancer of legendary skill & artistry, whose biography I read some time back & ended reluctantly, wishing I had more books from her.
Now I have that book & I'm telling my writer pals about Tywla Tharpe's THE CREATIVE HABIT.
It will dance you out of bed, keep you out of the lounge chair (unless you are writing there) & send you into months of progress on whatever it is you're working on - ballad about a boy killed by Florida prison guards, an alphabet book based on moths, your revision of a novel set in the 1960s, or today's homemade birthday poem.
It is fantabulous to learn that for those of us who cherish the work of children's literature creatives, one of Ms. Tharpe's longtime advisors in her posse of creatives whom she tries out ideas on, is Maurice Sendak. Enuf said.
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- inspiration (by 1 person)
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- Creative ability.
- Creative thinking.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Ability.
- Thought and thinking.
- Aptitude
- Creativity
- Thinking
- Créativité.
- Aptitude.
- Pensée.
- creativity.
- thinking.
- Tharp, Twyla -- 1941-
- Kreativität
- Kunst
- Literatur
- CREATIVITY.
- ABILITIES.
- PROBLEM SOLVING.
- Créativité
- Création artistique.
- Création littéraire.
- Habitude.
- Konstnärligt skapande.
- Kreativitet.
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