The Indie Author´s Guide to Creativity: Includes the Five-Step Creative Formula for Writers and Book Publishers! (en Inglés)
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NEW! - UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY! After 30 years of writing for a living, and having published over 30 Kindle books, I now reveal my most precious secret: The Five Step Formula for Writers and Books Publishers. The formula has served me well for three decades. You can use it when writing a new book, short-story, article, research paper, advertisement, or any other form of creative writing -fiction & non-fiction. Apply it to determine your book s niche, keywords, theme, title, and table of contents, as well as your promotional and marketing strategy. And if you re writing fiction, it is ideal for creating characters, plots and subplots, settings, descriptions, dialogues, narrations, etc.Spread your creative wings and try it out! T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S*FOREWORD: GENESIS OF THIS BOOKGenesis of this bookLearning the basics In search of a general formulaUseful tool for writers and publishers*CHAPTER 1: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITY1.1: Defining creativity1.2: Defining creative ideas1.3- Creativity in a nutshell*CHAPTER 2: THE PROCESS OF CREATIVE THINKING1.1- The great mystery story 1.2- Steps of creative thinking1.3- The role of curiosity1.4- Creative thinking in a nutshell*CHAPTER 3: HELMHOLZ S THREE-PHASE MODEL3.1 -The conception of "happy ideas"3.2- Helmholtz's three-phase model3.3- Helmholtz s model in a nutshell*CHAPTER 4: POINCARÉ S FOUR-PHASE MODEL4.1- Poincaré s four-phase model4.2- Poincaré on illumination4.3- Poincaré s model in a nutshell*CHAPTER 5: WALLAS AND THE ART OF THOUGHT5.1- Phases of the Art of Thought5.2- The four- stage model5.3- The Art of Thought in a nutshell*CHAPTER 6: YOUNG S TECHNIQUE FOR PRODUCING IDEAS6.1- Principles of idea production6.2- Young s five-step model 6.3- Young s technique in a nutshell*CHAPTER 7: HOW EINSTEIN GOT HIS BIGGEST IDEA7.1- The last two weeks of the process7.2- An enlightening testimony7.3- Einstein s five-step formula 7.4- Einstein s five steps in a nutshell*CHAPTER 8: STEP ONE - BASIC RESEARCH (DATA GATHERING)8.1- On keeping the right attitude8.2- On gathering the basic information8.3- How to apply the first step8.4- On knowing your subject 8.5- On keeping a written record8.6- Step One in a nutshell*CHAPTER 9: STEP TWO - COMBINATORY PLAY9.1- Einstein s Combinatory Play9.2- Hill s synthetic and creative imaginations9.3- Young s digestive process9.4- Jung s association method9.5- Mindmapping9.6- Brainstorming9.7- Interrupted reading9.8- On reaching saturation9.9- Step Two in a nutshell*CHAPTER 10: STEP THREE - INCUBATION10.1- Wallas: Basic steps of incubation10.2- Young: Activating the unconscious 10.3- Einstein s incubation methods10.4- Other relevant testimonials10.5- Step Three in a nutshell*CHAPTER 11: STEP FOUR - ILLUMINATION11.1- Famous eureka! moments11.2- Famous literary aja! moments11.3- Highsmith on the "germ of a story"11.4-How ideas appear 11.5- The power of dreams 11.6- Stevenson s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde11.7- Mary Shelley s Frankenstein11.8- Coleridge s Kubla Kan11.9- The stuff that dreams are made of11.10- Characteristics of illumination11.11- Separate the wheat from the chaff11.12- Step Four in a nutshell*CHAPTER 12: STEP FIVE - PRODUCING YOUR NEW IDEA12.1- Einstein: From first draft to manuscript 12.2- Young: Putting your idea to work12.3- On writing the first draft 12.4: Time to sit down and write12.5- On Einstein s final manuscript12.6- H. P. Lovecraft s writing tips12.7- John Steinbeck s writing tips12.8- Miller s writing commandments12.9- Step Five in a nutshell*CHAPTER 13: APPLY THE FORMULA! DO IT NOW!13.1- The more you practice, the easier it gets!13.2- Importance of trial and error*ABOUT THE AUTHOR
