Category: Applied Creative Thinking

For those not in the know, Adult Swim is not that time period down at your local Y when everyone younger than 18 is cleared from the pool. Instead, Adult Swim i...

According to popular lore, the devil is in the details. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believes “God is in the details.” As for us, creativity is in the det...

It is better to write a bad short story than to have a good idea for a short story that you never write. Most of our posts tell a story, give a quote, or start ...

Want a good exercise for writing better fiction, one that works whether you are a creative writing instructor or a fiction writer? Read on. In Chapter VIII of o...

Gender Studies has become a popular field in academia, but we’d like to use the term in a different way—i.e., studying the gender composition of groups. Why? Wh...

According to Ecclesiastes—and The Byrds—“For everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.”  But is there a season for creativity, and ...

Has anyone, particularly a teacher, ever said to you, “Be creative!”? Probably not.  Most of the instructions we receive in our P-20 years ask for recall of spe...

When we were researching creative thinking for both our Introduction to Applied Creative Thinking (2012) and our Teaching Applied Creative Thinking (2013), we r...

Is there one exercise that acts as a super-food for the applied creative thinking regimen?  (Tweet this quote.) Perhaps the power of blueberries and such dietar...