The Black-Out Poem

Creativity is Subtraction!
According to Austin Kleon the inventor of "The Black out" poem creativity is really about "less is more" It is about looking at your work or other people's work and then subtracting what is unnecessary and then incorporating something different. I have learned that beautifully by incorporating my own Black-out poem with my love for Jane Austen and her work. Looking at books like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility I constructed a poem that tells the stories of Elizabeth Bennet ( Pride and Prejudice) and  Marianne Dashwood ( Sense and Sensibility), about how the felt about relationships.
       

Here is an expression of my work



Hook Your Children On Reading

 

Reading is the New fun! Gone are those days when kids were not interested in reading, today books are a kids best friend because they can relate its like watching catoons. Writers across the world have discovered new ways for kids to read by providing literature with illustrations. They are cool and interesting, they have a colorful language and creative spin on some of the books but it will keep kids hooked on reading. Dr Seuss said " The more that you read, the more things you know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go".  Creativity is therefore unlimited, it breeds from what is important to you. Let creativity evolve from your passion and interests.

Stay On The BUS!

Writers who didn't give up!

 

 

The Helsinki Bus Theory speaks about having the courage to stay on the "bus" even when it feels like you shouldn't. Stephen King is an excellent example of a writer that did not give up. It is about believing in your work more than anyone else does and know that you will reach your goals one day if only you don't give up! if only you stay on the bus! No body wakes up into a life of success, we all need to work on it, take rides sometimes these rides will seem long but they will be worth it in the end we are the ones that need to execute our careers. The Bus will not stay on one spot, it will keep on moving, the question are you will to stay on the bus?

 



How to get over a writer's block Creatively

We have all experienced a writer's block, sometimes in the simplest things like writing a speech or writing an essay and at times its very frustrating. The great thing about this is that you can get over the block. Austin Kleon the author How to steal like an artist teaches that Nothing Is Original, everything is brewed from something or somewhere- this is stealing something with the aim of making it unique and yours. In order to master this you will need to know 10 things Kleon teaches:
1. Steal Like An Artist
2. Don't Wait Until You Know Who You Are To Get Started
3. Write The Book You Want To Read
4. Use Your Hands
5. Side Projects And Hobbies Are Important
6. The Secret: Do Good Work And Share It With People
7. Geography Is No Longer Our Master
8.Be Nice! ( The World Is A Small Town)
9. Be Strong (its the only way to get the work done)
10. Creativity is Subtraction

 



 

How to steal like an artist

Austin Kleon

 

Creativity is changing lives poetically

 

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide but are moving on to the end of their own rainbows"



For Colored Girls originally verses of poems by Ntozake Shange which we all know now as a Movie. One of the good things about Miss Shange's work is that it is passed on from mothers to daughters and they also pass it down horizontally to friends. For Colored Girls is one of the ground breaking books or movies because it changed women's lives and gave Black women in particular the audacity to speak out about their vulnerabilities without being afraid of what other people will say. It has been an opportunity for women to heal by sharing their stories. this was created creatively in theatrical arts and poetry. Every women has a colour and that is a theme on its own. the themes are beautifully intersecting each other to show relevance in what women go through

For Colored Girls

 

Are we born to live creative lives or do we develop our lives creatively?





 "People are born with creativity" they say, its either you have or you don't. Well I beg to disagree with that statement because I that creativity is the art of seeing and doing. Creativity  comes from where one draws his or her inspiration from and  being brave enough to create from that inspiration. Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love explains this as a Creative Spirit it is what we develop in our journeys in life. My creative spirit that I have developed is the power to create without being afraid. Elizabeth Gilbert warns on the creative spirit, that it can either build a person or destroy a person.

 

 

http://www.ted.com/speakers/elizabeth_gilbert

http://www.elizabeth-gilbert.com/

 

 



Can the lack of "good quality" of education for all be solved in South Africa?

  South Africa has come a long way over the years and as a country we have conquered so much but I think that we still have a journey ahead of us. In order to succeed as a country we must focus on certain espects one of them being Education. It is Dr Johnnetta Betsch Cole who said "Education is the single most consistent and powerful means for the advancement of an individual an d other people". It is my belief that the advancement of this country depends on the advancement of our next generation- a group of young people that will not to be silent what we are facing today is no longer primarily a problem of whether or not all children have the right to education but really about " Are all children receiving the best education". It is my desire that one day every child regardless of race or where they come from they will receive the best education. The level of education that allows them to compete with the rest of the world. When we achieve this, our country will have a generation that will do extraordinary things