Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved, in this 22-minute video: Where does creativity hide? I especially like "the uncertainity principle" that she mentions, along with the "eleven levels of anxiety" that operate at the same time.Born in the US to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan rejected her mother's expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist and chose to write fiction instead. Have you read any of her books? I read The Joy Luck Club first, though I enjoyed later books more. I especially liked The Hundred Secret Senses, about which a Newsweek writer said:
"Tan has once more produced a novel somewhat like a hologram: turn it this way and find Chinese-Americans shopping and arguing in San Francisco; turn it that way and the Chinese of Changmian village in 1864 are fleeing into the hills to hide from the rampaging Manchus."I hope you get a chuckle or two out of the video above. To access it, click on the underlined link.
Do schools kill creativity?
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I love Amy Tan. I recently read and enjoyed her non-fiction book about her writing very much. The only exception was I couldn't finish her last book (about the tour group to Myanmar/Burma).
Do schools kill creativity? I think they try. My oldest is in high school and he has to write essays to a very specific format and has hardly any exposure to creative writing. He used to write great stories too.
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