Whether you're writing a poem, painting a picture, composing a symphony -- or baking cookies, creativity is an important element in achieving satisfaction and excellence. But for many of us, accessing our creative talents is difficult, if not impossible. Now acclaimed film producer Don Hahn offers his own unorthodox yet highly effective methods for finding the artist in all of us.Blending personal, and often funny anecdotes and discoveries with advice and prescriptions for finding your creative self, Hahn explores the emotions that accompany creative tasks and discusses the importance of constructing a creative environment. He describes the creative process as a series of stages and identifies the forces that drive creativity, including balance, chaos, persistence, truth -- plus chocolate and coffee. Best of all he demonstrates how his theories can be put into practice using his own highly successful career as an example. Filled with humor and empathy, along with some good old-fashioned practical advice, Dancing Corndogs in the Night -- metaphor for Hahn's own seminal experience as a young boy mesmerized by images projected onto a drive-in movie screen -- takes readers on a helpful journey along a pathway -- complete with potholes -- to a more creative existence.
- ISBN10 0786863749
- ISBN13 9780786863747
- Publish Date 27 January 1999
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Little, Brown and Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English