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Creativity is Not Magic, Everything is a Remix

July 15, 2011 by Margaret Duarte

Creativity is not magic. 

“Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.” – Albert Einstein

As a writer, I wanted to share the following video about creativity, so you know that what we do as writers is hard work not magic.

It starts out like this:

“The act of creation is surrounded by a fog of myths. Myths that creativity comes via inspiration. That original creations break the mold, that they’re the products of geniuses, and appear as quickly as electricity can heat a filament. But creativity is not magic: it happens by applying ordinary tools of thought to existing materials.”

Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen. The rest of the series can be seen HERE.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

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Filed Under: For Readers, For Writers, Lifestyle Tagged With: Creativity

About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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