“In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.” PersonsPlayTogetherNextNovelSuccessfulEnvironmentGroupsTeamProductsMembersContributionCollaborationSparksProvidingSuccessful WorkChanging Environment Author:R. Keith Sawyer
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn
“When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.” WritingFirstsNovelMovementProductsLateFeministMemoirQueensSixtyExesUrgentUrgencyPromProm Queen Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual."” PersonsLongArtActionIndividualProcessHurtNovelCreativeGrowingProductsPropertyAuthenticityBeing YourselfIndividualismCreative ProcessUniquenessEmergence Author:Carl Rogers
“It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would, in an earlier period, have been submitting to magazines and working on their first novels. But even in the midst of all these "digital products," the wonder of it is that there are still so many young writers who continue to believe in the venerable print novel as the corridor to fame and fortune.” WritingFirstsBelieveHas BeensStillsYoungWonderNovelProductsPeriodsFameDemandFortuneScriptsMagazinesDigitalMidstDevicesPrintFlocksCorridorsYoung Writers Author:Cynthia Ozick
“You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.” WantLongIdeasStoriesEasyNovelProductsFinishedDrawingSatisfyingMarathonGraphicPlugsBurn OutGraphic Novels Author:Vera Brosgol