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Rules For Getting Creative

4 Rules for Getting Creative from Downton Abbey Creator Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes
1. Years ago, after I left Cambridge and went to drama school, my friends who were going on to lead sane lives in banking or the army thought I was crazy. I had to stop seeing them and instead surround myself with people who believed I was talented and that it was all going to happen for me.

2. There are days when I realize I’m writing rubbish. But my solution is not to not write. I plan a plot structure, and usually the writer’s block passes.

3. One thing I don’t believe in is constantly going back over what I’ve done. Editing my scripts seems to be fruitful only once I’ve reached the end—when I have the broad strokes, the big picture. If I’m constantly going over what I wrote last Tuesday, it’s difficult to actually finish it.

4. When I’ve exhausted my general fizz, I’ll write the title of the next scene: “Dining Room, Day.” I think it’s a mistake to stop working without a clue as to what comes next.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/entertainment/Julian-Fellowes-Creativity-Rules#ixzz2JHzpxqsO

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Bad Spellers

That’s me!

I can not spell and I always tell my students that we all have talents, I have many, but spelling is not one of them. My Dad can’t spell either and he writes music, poetry, journal entries and he also substitute teaches as a hobby in his retirement. So I’ve always told myself it is an inherited trait that can’t be helped.

When I came across this article in the New York Times entitled The Price of Typos By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN and I saw this written in her piece I knew instantly it was a quote I would live by.

Bad spellers are a breed apart from good ones. A writer with a mind that doesn’t register how words are spelled tends to see through the words (s)he encounters — straight to the things, characters, ideas, images and emotions they conjure.

I like to think I am exactly that – well said!

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