A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Interpretation
A hunch symbolizes the instinctive insights of creativity urging you to take action or notice something important.
This quote emphasizes the role of intuition in the creative process. A 'hunch' is often seen as an inner prompt or a gut feeling that can lead to innovative thoughts or actions. It suggests that creativity communicates with us through these subtle nudges, urging us to recognize and follow our instincts.
In practice
In a creative writing workshop, to encourage participants to trust their instincts.
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.
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The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,β he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.
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Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.
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