1. Let your passions feed your work.
2. Explore and observe voraciously.
3. Take what you see around you and give it your own fun twist.
4. Be versatile [in your methods and techniques].
5. Keep evidence of your process so others can learn.
6. Make friends and spread yourself around.
7. To keep from getting distracted, if necessary go stay in a studio, room, even a hotel when you have a deadline coming up!
2. Explore and observe voraciously.
3. Take what you see around you and give it your own fun twist.
4. Be versatile [in your methods and techniques].
5. Keep evidence of your process so others can learn.
6. Make friends and spread yourself around.
7. To keep from getting distracted, if necessary go stay in a studio, room, even a hotel when you have a deadline coming up!
Excerpted from Seven lessons in creativity from Don Freeman by Christine Wold Dryud, The Kerlan Awards in Children's Literature, 1975-2001, Ruth Berman, Editor, Pogo Press, University of Minnesota, 2001, pages 310--414. Roy added some edits here.