In this video clip produced by the Atlantic, musician Annie Lenox talks about her life and trying to find what she was good at creating at age 17. For our class discussion on creativity and keeping a writer’s notebook, the most relevant section is from 0:55- 1:10 . Here she talks about the importance of getting things down, “catching” creative ideas, and writing them down. This is what we are doing with our Writers Notebooks. Valuing creative ideas that come to mind, paying attention to them, and recording them.
From the clip:
Print this pageI think the creative process is full of explorative ideas. Sometimes ideas that hit you instantaneously. And you kind of want to catch them as soon as they’re in that flow. You just want to get them down. And the challenge is always, how do you keep the freshness and the energy.”-Annie Lenox
