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100 1  Tharp, Twyla. 
245 14 The creative habit :|blearn it and use it for life : a 
       practical guide /|cTwyla Tharp, with Mark Reiter. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c[2003] 
264  4 |cİ2003 
300    vii, 243 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  I walk into a white room -- Rituals of preparation -- Your
       creative DNA -- Harness your memory -- Before you can 
       think out of the box, you have to start with a box -- 
       Scratching -- Accidents will happen -- Spine -- Skill -- 
       Ruts and grooves -- An "A" in failure -- The long run. 
520    Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, 
       bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the 
       product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach 
       of everyone who wants to achieve it. All it takes is the 
       willingness to make creativity a habit, an integral part 
       of your life: In order to be creative, you have to know 
       how to prepare to be creative. In The Creative Habit, 
       Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable 
       thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever
       creative impulses you follow-whether you are a painter, 
       composer, writer, director, choreographer, or for that 
       matter, a businessperson working on a deal, a chef 
       developing a new dish, a mother wanting her child to see 
       the world anew. When Tharp is at a creative dead end, she 
       relies on a lifetime of exercises to help her get out of 
       the rut, and the Creative Habit contains more than thirty 
       of them to ease the fears of anyone facing a blank 
       beginning and to open the mind to new possibilities. 
       Tharp's exercises are practical and immediately doable-for
       the novice or expert. In Where's Your Pencil? she reminds 
       us to observe the world-and get it down on paper. In 
       "Coins and Chaos," she provides the simplest of mental 
       games to restore order and peace. In Do a Verb, she turns 
       your mind and body into coworkers. In Build a Bridge to 
       the Next Day, she shows how to clean your cluttered mind 
       overnight. To Tharp, sustained creativity begins with 
       rituals, self-knowledge, harnessing your memories, and 
       organizing your materials (so no insight is ever lost). 
       Along the way she leads you by the hand through the 
       painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the 
       spine of your work, and getting out of ruts into 
       productive grooves. In her creative realm, optimism rules.
       An empty room, a bare desk, a blank canvas can be 
       energizing, not demoralizing.  And in this inventive, 
       encouraging book, Twyla Tharp shows us how to take a deep 
       breath and begin! 
650  0 Creative ability. 
650  0 Creative thinking. 
650  0 Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 
700 1  Reiter, Mark. 
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