Week 1 : Introduction to Creative Writing

WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING?

Creative thinking is the ability to create something by developing and combining ideas that are unique, useful and worthy of further elaboration to form an art. You have to be creative to think creatively especially artists, inventor, designer etc. Actually we humans are creative in our own individual way. Creativity is the form of bringing imaginary ideas into reality. Firstly, you think and then you produce it. When our imagination gets wild, that's where you will get all the creativity from.

However, creativity is not just the use of your imagination, it is the use of your imagination followed by the act of creation. Having great ideas and thoughts is not enough to be creative, without producing, great ideas and thoughts alone would be just being imaginative.

 For example, I drew leaves. When I come to think of it, drawing leaves is just too plain and dull. So I decided to use my creative skills. What should I develop from the leaf? Roots? Leaf patterns maybe?

So yes, I literally developed my leaves into leaf patterns. See how I use my imagination yet creativity to develop such ideas? There you go by the definition and examples of creative thinking.

I agreed with Charles Mingus' quote because different humans have different form of creativity and imagination. Even if you think simple, by developing that 'simple' idea into an awesomely simple, that's where you are creative.