Tips and stories about creativity

Check out the interview with Lynda Barry on this NPR show from the program, To The Best of Our Knowledge; she talks about writing. Listen now!
Here are a few little tid-bits from the interview:

• If you can freeze frame memories and put it down on paper - then you can write.
• Write for short periods of time, Lynda suggests eight minute chunks.
• The thinker is a guy who will never have an idea in his life.
• Create for no reason except to be creative.
• Write down the first 10 images that come to mind with a random word.
  
• Orientate your story in space and time, know the details of the place.

Check out her book,What it is, it is a book about writing that is not just about writing.