Creativity

Following up my first post on great opening lines to books, and getting the galley to my first non-self-published book, I found some more. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." -- Catcher in the Rye "Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die." -- Fight Club…

After most of my life valuing thinking about things and planning before doing, I've found acting first works better in many situations. And that thinking and theorizing inhibit getting things done. I'm not saying to act thoughtlessly. Everyone knows the problem with that. I don't think everyone knows the problems with the converse: thinking without acting. The words of my teacher for my movement class when I took acting a few years ago motivated us well with: If you're thinking you're not doing! or sometimes If you're thinking you're not moving! Movement is critical to acting. Who wants to see actors thinking about what they would do? Sure, you want them to think sometimes, but mainly you want to see them moving. The more ways…