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    The Power Of Creative Paths: Explore Creativity, Escape Limits: Steve's Creative Advice, #1
    The Power Of Creative Paths: Explore Creativity, Escape Limits: Steve's Creative Advice, #1
    The Power Of Creative Paths: Explore Creativity, Escape Limits: Steve's Creative Advice, #1
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    The Power Of Creative Paths: Explore Creativity, Escape Limits: Steve's Creative Advice, #1

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    We all want to be more creative - even when we think of ourselves as individuals who are great at coming up with ideas. But how do you do more? How do you go farther?

    By realizing the Creative Path you travel to get ideas - and then learning about different Paths others use so you can work with them and even use them yourselves!

    First, you'll learn about the five different Creative Paths to find the ones you use, its strengths - and its weaknesses. Next, you'll learn how to walk the other Paths through a series of guided exercises. Finally, you'll understand how people on different Paths can work together - or how they can fail.

    When you're done, you'll be ready to walk different Creative Paths, understand your preferred ones, and know how to work with people different (or the same) from you. You'll give yourself more options to be creative - which means more quality ideas!

    In this book you'll get:

    * The Five-Path Theory - Understand the five Creative Paths - Combiner, Expander, Fuser, Reducer, and Mapper
    * Concise Guides To The Five Paths - Know the strengths and weaknesses of the different Creative Paths.
    * Guides To Traveling On Different Paths - Once you know your preferred Creative Path, you can follow helpful exercises to travel the others.
    * Advice On How People On Different Paths Can Work Together - Different Paths work together different ways - find out how to maximize cooperation!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven Savage
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9781386144250
    The Power Of Creative Paths: Explore Creativity, Escape Limits: Steve's Creative Advice, #1
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    Steven Savage

    Steven Savage is a biologist, natural history writer, lecturer, and an associate member of the Institute of Biology in England. He teaches about ocean biology and has written more than thirty-seven natural history books for children.

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      The Power Of Creative Paths - Steven Savage

      The Power Of Creative Paths

      Explore Creativity, Escape Limits

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      By Steven Savage

      The Power Of Creative Paths

      Explore Creativity, Escape Your Limits

      First Edition

      Copyright © 2016 by Steven Savage

      All Rights Reserved. The materials in this book are provided for the personal use of the purchaser of the book. No redesign, editing, reproductions, or creations of a derivative work from these materials is permitted without the permission of Steven Savage. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission – except for the inclusion of quotations in a review or personal use.

      The information in this book is offered with the understanding that it does not contain legal, financial, or other professional advice. Those interested in such advice should consult a competent, properly-certified professional.

      While it is the sincere intent of this publication to provide accurate information in regard to the subject matter, the authors and all those affiliated with the publication of this book assume no responsibility for events occurring to any person or entity taking action or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication.

      This book is not completely comprehensive.. Some readers may wish to consult additional forms of information, some of which are provided inside this book.

      This book is provided as is without warranty of any kind.

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      EDITOR: Ellen Marlow

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      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to the people who've used www.SeventhSanctum.com over the years. Every idea, suggestion, piece of feedback helped me develop the ideas in this book.

      Thanks to the many people who let me coach and advise them.

      Thanks to Ellen Marlow for editing on short notice.

      Thanks to my pre-readers and advisers:

      * Jeff Fournier who's work in New Pulp can be found via www.airship27.com, The New Adventures of Sinbad Volume 4, and more.

      * Nathan Meunier of www.nathanmeunier.com – a pre-reader and a direct inspiration for this book.

      * Jason Sacks, author for The American Comic Book Chronicles book series.

      * Serdar Yegulap of www.genjipress.com who gave me excellent feedback on Creative Paths.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      What's This All About?

      Creative Paths

      What Is A Creative Path?

      The Combiner

      The Expander

      The Fuser

      The Reducer

      The Mapper

      Exploring Other Creative Paths

      Learning To Use Other Paths

      Combiners: Beyond The Shuffle

      Expanders: Stop Piling, Start Seeing

      Fusers: More Than Fusion

      Reducers: Sometimes More Is More

      Mappers: Into Clarity

      When Paths Collide

      Combiners And Other Creatives

      Expanders And Cooperation

      Fusers And Other Paths

      Reducers Teaming Up

      Mappers Working With Others

      Here At The End Of Things . . .

      About The Author

      What's This All About?

      We'd all like to be more creative, but it's challenging. By definition creativity is an amorphous, trickster of a thing; hard to grasp, easy to loose, showing up when least expected. Improving creativity can be like exercising a muscle we don't understand.

      This book is about becoming aware of creativity so it can be improved.

      I've identified five different ways people come up with their Big Ideas that I call Creative Paths – the ways we get from no idea to Big Idea, that great book or song or plan. Most people have one or two Paths they use by default.

      Being aware which Path or Paths you travel to get to Big Ideas is useful, and may give you ideas how to practice them. But the real way to improve your Creativity is to learn to use other Paths. This book is about finding how you create, then giving you more options to get to your Big Idea.

      But, to help you understand where this came from, a bit about how I ended up writing this.

      Big Ideas About Big Ideas

      I've always been a creative type. I loved science fiction as a child and tried my hand at fiction writing time and again (mostly for fun). I've played role-playing games and even developed them. I was always coming up with Big Ideas – more than I had time to use.

      I became fascinated with creativity itself; how people came up with ideas, how a few inspirations or dice rolls could make a character. Some two decades before I wrote this book I began experimenting with random programs to make things like character names. This resulted in me creating www.SeventhSanctum.com, a site of random idea, name, and story generators to inspire Big Ideas.

      My work at Seventh Sanctum led me to become interested in just how people create. By studying the way people became inspired, I could see common patterns in how people got creative. This led me to come up with my theory that there are five basic ways people come up with new Big Ideas – the Five Creative Paths.

      With this theory, we can examine how we create, how others create, and how to both overcome our limits and walk other Creative Paths we're not familiar with.

      But a quick note for the sake of clarity.

      The Realm Of Theory

      The Five Creative Paths are a theory. I used my own creativity and analysis to come up with a way to understand how we arrive at Big Ideas. All theories are tools, and all theories are incomplete, including this one.

      This book is not the only resource you'll want to read on creativity – you will want to seek others that fit your needs. This guide may be updated and expanded. Creativity is a tricky thing, so there's always more to add, always more to find, always exceptions.

      Use this book as a tool, and find what works for you. Where it doesn't, find others.

      You might even end

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