creative reality

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Creative Reality
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• Well, I had a thought about this. The fundamental
  problem is that people want a creative reality,
  not a real reality. They want it to be creative
  like a novel or a movie, with interesting plots
  and dialog, and also creative like when you
  doodle something and make it up as you go along.

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• I'm afraid you're going to have to settle for
  just one of those. You can have an interesting,
  made-up reality, or you can have a real one.
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• But if you want the story to be true, you can't
  make it up while you're writing it.

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• For instance, maybe there was another character
  in your story who was supposed to be your
  romantic interest, but he got killed off by the
  guy with the knife before anything interesting
  happened.

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• Our first instinct is to say bad luck! Let's
  just bring him back to life and keep going as if
  nothing had happened.

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• But if we do that, the story won't be about how
  things really are it will be about how we wish
  things were.

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• The most dangerous thought you can have as a
  creative person is to think you know what you're
  doing. It makes you inflexible, hides the holes
  in your reasoning, and makes it harder to improve
  your technique.

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• The most valuable thing you can have as a
  creative person is a beginner's mind. Beginners
  are free of mental habits. They approach things
  with wonder and delight, as though they were
  brand new every time they saw them. Which, of
  course, they are we just get used to them too
  fast.