What Is Audrey Taylor Creativity

When I was eight or nine years old, I decided I wanted to be a writer. By this age, I had already gone through the phases of wanting to be an artist, a cook, an astronaut and was extremely satisfied with my new choice of profession. After all, I loved to read so why not write? Reading was my true love: during second grade, I conquered all of Harry Potter over the course of two months. My mom’s rule was that I had to read the book before watching the movie, so I read and read. I would compete in, and win, all the school reading competitions as well as the summer library competitions. Writing, I decided, was the next natural step.

The author’s describe the concept of a “remote control childhood”, which is based on the fact that most children these days spend a lot of their time consuming media from television, movies and video games. When children are sat watching something or playing a videogame with a structured storyline, they have very little control and creativity over what they are learning and

Game after game they played, the girls leading him around the arcade. Each one aroused a young and bright memory of his life, and he started thinking animatedly about them to his new friends. This game made him think of the time he rode a motorcycle for the first time, and nearly crashed into a tree. That one made him think about endless nights playing video games with his mates.

The author initiates this argument by stating how some factors in many video games are erroneous; this includes lasers, which should be invisible, and the inaccurate speed measurements in racing games. Poole refutes this viewpoint by saying that changing a game to make it realistic would remove the fun experienced by gamers; some aspects of a video game are made unreal on purpose. These imaginary factors serve to create a fantasy world which is to be enjoyed by the player. Also included are the game developers’ intentional use of deformed characters, with smaller bodies and larger heads. For example, Poole explains how intentionally deformed characters such as Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog have engaged players successfully, while more realistic characters such as those of Final Fantasy VIII have received much criticism. The author believes that the reason for a player’s more successful engagement with deformed characters lies in the fact that cuter, unreal characters help the player to escape into the unreal world, while realistic characters fail to do so. Overall, unreal factors help to carry out the main purpose of a video game by engaging the player with the world, which in turn will cause the player to be engaged with the game

Irrespective of the way in which it is done, storytelling is, an art (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2013). A fruitful and entertaining children’s picture-book is not as easy to write as it is writing for adults. There is much to be considered when writing a children’s picture book: plot, word choice, tone, character, theme, setting, and style (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2013). The unique nature of picture-books as a form of art is founded on the integration of two ranks of communication: the verbal and the visual. Picture-books have such features as a story line presented briefly and in a straightforward manner. The few (limited) concepts included should be understood by children, the text should be written in an honest and direct way, and illustrations should

Due to my excellence in middle school English, I was placed into the Honors English I class. This reawakened the childhood talent I had held onto so dearly. Growing up, I always had a knack for storytelling. Even before my brain knew the alphabet existed, my little hands formed scribbles in which I would tell the daring story of a hero saving the day from certain destruction. The heroes always were my age, and sometimes I even wrote myself as the hero. My imagination only seemed to grow stronger with age, and by the time I had turned fourteen I had come to a decision: I was going to write a book.

In this world today kids can play video games on about anything such as computers, phones, Tvs, and game consoles. The most useful gaming device that is used today by children all over the world is the cell phone, children can access it easily without having to plug it up to a Tv or deal with any cords other than the charger. “Researchers gave 12-year-old gamers tests that asked them to draw, tell stories, ask questions and make predictions. All of the kids had high levels of creativity and curiosity”(Morin).

As I entered high school and the time of deciding a legitimate career path neared, I was unsure which job I should pick. I still wanted to be both an author and an actress. It wasn’t until my junior year that I was introduced to the art of animation. I had finally found a career path that allowed me to channel both my love for creating characters and writing stories through drawings.

When people think of comic books and smartphone games they generally think of children. However, Sam Anderson and Michael Chabon effectively persuade readers to recognize that comic books and smartphone apps should be looked in a different manner. Sam Anderson’s, “Just one more game” is about the digital games that are found on smartphones and how these visual games can lead to a better future. Sam Anderson is a journalist and appeared on the New York Times magazine with his quirky and contemporary essay. Similarly, Michael Chabon is an eccentric writer and read his essay, “Kid’s Stuff,” at the Eisner Awards (like comic book Oscar’s) in 2004. Chabon’s piece of writing is attempting to persuade comic book writers to change their target audience

What would it be like to wake up inside a linear world where turtles, mushrooms, princesses, dinosaurs, and a little mustached Italian plumber are caught in a deadly fight for their lives? The makers of Nintendo made this possible through the game of “Super Mario Bros”. In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, Nintendo was a major contender for taking over the technological age. As one of the biggest gaming console makers, Nintendo has supplied children all over the world with the opportunity to escape into a world other than their own, without them having to leave the comfort of their own home. I chose this book because I was one of those children and Nintendo has always been a part of my life.

to keep up with emerging trends in the gaming industry. Combining my 3 years of

Lee Sheldon, game designer and author of The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game and Character Development and Storytelling for Games;

After reading these novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The BFG, and The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I was able to see the varieties of children’s childhoods. Imagination plays a major and main role in children’s literature. Without that imagination, the main characters in the novels mentioned before wouldn’t challenge their morals. In this essay I will argue that these three novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The BFG, and The Invention of Hugo Cabret help the reader understand that growing up with different backgrounds affects how the character handles their obstacles, determining right from wrong, and judgement of impractical and practical situations.

From simple if statements to making our own text based game. Mr. Faulkner has been a big teacher and mentor to me by inspiring me to be the best by tutoring me and helping me when I was behind or didn’t quite understand what was being teacher. He was there to make sure that I had fun and was successful in programing. This inspired to be his teacher’s aide and take his AP courses, so that I may further understand programing and to better understand myself. I wish to design games from designing the world and characters, programming the engine it runs on, or writing a narrative story to encase the player in the game. To give the player and experience that truly amazes

As uttered by Albert Einstein, ‘Art is the expression of the most profound thoughts in the simplest way’. For decades, literary criticism has essentially ‘shunned’ the unassuming and humble picture book on the basis that it is somewhat jejune, and fixated upon a fallacious assertion that great popularity among readers is testimony to poor quality. This rather elitist idea is further amplified by a recurrent belief that if children 's novels are enjoyable then they simply cannot be good for children. Whoever would have thought that ‘having fun’ could cause such a commotion? Furthermore, why, in the critical sphere is fun so synonymous with immaturity and buffoonery? As human beings we share innate universals including emotional cognizance, the desire for human connection, and most importantly: the need for pleasure, exploration and play. The fantastical is a natural part of the intellectual patrimony of humankind as instinctively, we try to comprehend existential matters, especially those concerning the human condition. The fantasy genre involves a different way of apprehending existence, and ‘like feelings and emotions, imagination is one of those prickly topics with a history of exclusion from the realm of the cognitive.’ In acknowledgement of the critical power of fantasy and the picture book, this essay explores the exotic affordances of children’s literature, emphasising its power to enhance the child’s intellectual and emotional development. With explicit reference