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Tag Archives: Solitude

“To do two things at once is to do neither.” This is a great article about the importance of solitude for a writer

08 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by thepoetsbillow in Blog

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Article, contest, Internet, lit. jounral, poem, Poet, Poetry, reading, Solitude, Writing

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi discusses the five stages of creativity—preparation, incubation, insight, evaluation, and elaboration. Of these, it seems that at least three, if not four, are incompatible with the constant influx of new and fascinating information we encounter online. What creativity needs most of all is time for the mind to percolate, to mix old ideas together in new ways, and to find connections no one else has found. For this the mind must be left to itself.

Read the article at the Poets and Writers website: Inner Space: Clearing Some Room for Inspiration

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