I am a huge fan of Lynda Barry.  If you are at all interested in being a writer or exploring your creativity, Lynda Barry’s books and interviews are well worth checking out.  The question “What is an image?” has become her life’s work.

She has worked as a cartoonist, writing Ernie Pook’s Comeek but now she leads workshops on creative writing and drawing.  Her latest book Syllabus outlines her methodology –best described in her own words as  “A semester of writing and drawing by hand”. 

And in that short description lies much of what Lynda Barry promotes –that our access to our own unique creative resource is in our hands –not our minds.  Minds are too judgmental and get in the way of a good sentence or a good drawing.  Writing and drawing should work its way up from the hand to the mind and not the other way around.

Can you access creativity without doing?  Can you be creative without a physical representation such as an image, a story, an article, a poem, a spoken thought? 

These are some of the questions Lynda Barry provokes.

For a recent interview with Lynda go to http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/14/lynda-barry-art-comic-books

or go to her tumblr account which makes me think and laugh at the same time; http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/

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Enjoy!