Will Self on Creativity: "Enjoy Suspending Your Own Disbelief"

#willself #creativity #creative Will Self knows first-hand what it means to live a truly creative life. An artistic polymath renowned as an essayist, broadcaster and novelist - author of eleven novels, latterly Shark and Umbrella, as well as seven short story collections and seven essay collections - few are better placed to teach us how to realise the infinite possibilities of the human imagination.
In Part 2 of his How To Academy event, Will lets us in on his personal process of creativity - eavesdropping on strangers’ conversations, seeking solitude and making more notes in notebooks than you thought possible.
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[@kurisensei]

Will Self is never boring

[@DerekHuntArtist]

This is liquid gold, why only 122 views???

[@zazahuss2077]

Agree, I respected Will Self for a while. To answer your question, because people are distracted by Tin.

[@OneWithMagic]

LooOOOooVe Will Self! Tried to be creative with the word Love.

[@deebee8290]

terrific - absolutely fundamental truths here

[@boazklachkin4177]

Thank you so much for providing an incredible, inspiring set of tools for writing and speaking in a constructive, goal-driven manner. Will Self (Self-Will) just about says it all about being a creative artist. KUDOS!!! PS I keep a notebook, writing the words he uses to enhance my apparent limited vocabulary. Each one a gem for a new universe.

[@cartoonvandal]

I'd very much like to hear Will Self's views upon the late, great Anthony Burgess.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

You don't necessarily need to be a wordsmith to write. E.g. Voltaire's 'simple fairy tale' "Candide" or the many stories - Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Arabic etc. - passed down to us that, for all their age, translations and interpretations, remain redolent with meaning ... 😉

[@geoffreynhill2833]

read my green fire tommy & ruthie's blues amazon 🌈🦉

[@sam1503cd]

I find, in our lifetimes, we inevitably ask, what is the ‘self’?

[@patrickmccormack4318]

6:46 Can't stop myself...way too much fun. Lord of GaDung, GaDung Nasal Polyp. Clever technique to bring clicks?

[@sherlockholmeslives.1605]

"Talent develops in quite places, character in the full current of human affairs." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 - 1832 )

[@boazklachkin4177]

quoting great people is like embedding their greatness in your own sets of morals and perceptions. Good Job Sherlock!!!

[@davidjames5517]

22 minutes in the mind of a great genius is 22 minutes well spent.

[@karinturkington2455]

Very practical information. Just what I need.

[@MrAndrew535]

Surely the key to creative writing is creative thinking. Once one has recognized that then one must have at one's disposal an intelligent definition and description of creative or what is actually denoted by the term "creation". Then one can say, with absolute certainty that one is writing in a manner that can truly be regarded as creative.