Craft Mastering Your Creative Process with Pamela Jaye Smith

Whether it’s for a story, a project, a class, a relationship, etc. the 4-part creative cycle affects everything on small and large scales, from a single small plant to a civilization to a star system. Learning to discern where in the process something is can give you all kinds of insights and advantages to influencing the outcome and enjoying the process.

From initial inspiration through writing, research, re-writing, polishing, pitching, production, marketing, and distribution – increase the power of your creativity with these timeless, practical tools once mainly taught in the ancient and secret Mystery Schools.

• Familiarize yourself with the Pyramid of Creativity and how to use it.
• Explore the 4 Stages of the Creative Process.
• Learn about timing-and-order, balancing emotions and mind, the power of silence, the fine art of collaboration, celebration, and moving on.
• Get a heads-up on the specific pitfalls of each stage and how to avoid them.

Now you too can work with the natural cycles of creativity to become much more efficient and effective.
Use these universal underlying patterns both for yourself and for your characters as they go through their own cycles of desire, disappointment, distraction, determination, etc.
The Lessons include optional homework questions and short writing exercises with Instructor comments on both.

Lessons

1. Introduction – What is Creativity? Where does it come from? How can you stay connected to it?
2. The Pyramid of Creativity
3. The Pyramid – problems and solutions
4. The 4-part Creative Cycle: Inspiration – Development – Delivery – Relaxation
5. Stage 1 - problems and solutions
6. Stage 2a - problems and solutions
7. Stage 2b - problems and solutions
8. Stage 2c - problems and solutions
9. Stage 3 - problems and solutions
10. Stage 4a – problems and solutions
11. Stage 4b – problems and solutions
12. Review and specific suggestions for your projects