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Stop Staring at the Blank Page: How Creativity Works in Our Minds
Every screenwriter gets stuck. Some call it writer’s block. Others don’t believe writer’s block exists. Either way, every writer runs into a problem that stops the writing process cold. Then despair...
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29 Ways to Stay Creative from Japanese Graphics Firm TO-FU
As we start the weekend, I wanted to share this video with all the NoFilmSchool readers out there who might be having some sort of creative block. Staying in a creative and inspired state of mind is...
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Kirby Ferguson on Creativity: Nothing is Original, Everything is a Remix. But...
Kirby Ferguson made a name for himself with the popular series Everything is a Remix, in which he proposes that everything mankind creates takes inspiration from something that has come before. He...
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John Cleese Shows You How To Foster Creativity in This 36-Minute Lecture
As artists, it’s important for us to be able to be creative, but much like telling two people to have a conversation, most attempts at trying to force creativity results in little to nothing happening....
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The Day the Gatekeeper Died: Patton Oswalt on DIY Creative Careers
This is not new. It is so old, in fact, that it has been on the internet for over two months, so feel free to skip this if you’ve already heard it. However, I’ve found myself sharing Patton Oswalt’s...
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Don't Let Your Imagination Get the Best of You: a Message from NY Times...
Ideas are great, but in having ‘too many’ of them, you run the risk of overloading yourself, compounding your creative schedule to a point you can’t actually manage, or worst of all — never actually...
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'To Be Loved & Understood': Take a Look Inside the Creative Process of...
All creative individuals have their own ways of working and specific quirks about their methods. I always think it’s fascinating to watch professionals at the top of any creative or artistic field, and...
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Creatively Stagnant? Here's a Video Editing Tip That Might Get Your Brain...
How many times have you come across an article with a title like “50 Million Ways to Get Rid of Writer’s Block” and “Unlikely Foods that Will Jumpstart Your Writing”. Being a writer myself, I enjoy the...
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8 Somewhat Unusual Screenwriting Tips That May Help Kickstart and Maintain...
As screenwriters, it’s always so frustrating when our wellsprings of ideas and creativity dry up, leaving us with nothing more than an unfinished scene, an unrealistic character, or even worse, a...
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The Science of Creativity: Understand and Improve Your Own Creative Process
It might sound preposterous, even a little insulting, to think of creativity as something you can muster and “do better.” There is this presupposition that creative people are born that way, and each...
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Creative Filmmakers, Ira Glass Has a Stunning Message of Inspiration Just for...
Filmmaking as a creative pursuit can be one of the most rewarding things that a person can undertake, especially if you’re proud of the content that you create and it’s well-received by an audience. On...
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Why Are We the Way We Are? A List of Things Creative People Do Differently
If you’re a creative person, you might’ve wondered, perhaps especially in your youth, what the hell was wrong with you. Maybe you were the “weird” kid in class that was always looking out the window,...
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This Infographic Reveals the Daily Routines of History's Greatest Creative Minds
It’s easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of our busy lives, allowing our creative endeavors to go by the wayside indefinitely until we can work them into our schedules. But it’s interesting to...
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Grab Some Running Shoes & Mess Up Your Desk! Science Weighs in on What...
Finding which tools will bolster your creativity is not only important for your work, but to also keep things interesting. Maybe you’ve had friends, colleagues, even industry professionals share their...
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The Great David Lynch Explains Where Ideas Come from & What to Do when You've...
The fight for ideas is a long, exhausting one. At times it feels like no matter what we do to help inspire our creativity, the space between artistic revelations widens — and without a firm idea on...
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Da Vinci Was a Loser: Why Failure Stories Are the Ones You May Need to Hear
There have never been more people who believe that they are not only talented, but destined for success, and early success, at that, to the point where they feel like an abject failure if they don’t...
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This Video Series Explores What It Means to Be Creative Through the Eyes of...
We work in a creative medium — screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, editors, etc. — we’re all taking material that exists in one form and metamorphosing it into another. But oftentimes that...
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Tips on Impregnating Your Brain with Ideas from 'Nacho Libre' Screenwriter...
What does screenwriting look like? Waking up at 6am, pouring a cup of coffee — black, sitting down at a desk with last night’s Chinese take out strewn about, turning on your computer, going over notes,...
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Check Out This Video On 10 Steps of the Creative Process
There is a common fallacy regarding creativity, mostly to be found among those who fancy themselves creative but never seem to complete any work. It goes back all the way to Plato, who said, and I’m...
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