Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Not everyone wakes up in the middle of the night to stumble in the dark, find a notepad or their phone’s notes app to write down a fresh idea for a novel.

Most people struggle with creativity.

As a matter of fact in an article in Newsweek dated July 2010, authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman found that creativity is on a downward slide especially in younger children.  In their article Professor Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William and Mary stated that of those who took the Torrance Test which measures creativity have shown a steady decrease since 1990.

I guess all I’m saying is that you are not alone if you do not feel very creative.  If you have written a novel that is different and not just like everyone else’s best seller, then you can consider yourself in a minority.  

Today I thought I…