“New ideas are like small children; we need to encourage them, nurture them, help them to walk, talk, and to grow.”
– Pen Densham and Jay Roach, Riding the Alligator
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“Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple—or more difficult. Difficult, because to trust children we must trust ourselves—and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. And so we go on treating children as we ourselves were treated, calling this “reality,” or saying bitterly, “If I could put up with it, they can too.””
– John Holt, How Children Learn
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Writing is the opposite of everything else in life: it’s easier to clear up the mess than create it.
It’s much easier to be a cleaner, editing work that already fills the page.
Your creative genius is a toddler.
Let them draw on the walls and get out every toy.
Make a mess.
Its in the tidying and packing away where we catch a glimpse of the good ideas.
As adults we are inhibited from making a mess.
Thinking of our creating selves as a toddler frees us from thinking.
We just play.
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