Creativity in Mind
The work illustrated on this website is developed through a creative methodology known as Glanside.
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What is Glanside?
- Glanside is a Cocktail Bar where new and interesting ideas are mixed
- Glanside is a Garden where new idea mixtures are allowed to grow
Glanside - or Glancing Sideways - is the science and art of intensifying creativity through the use of creative thinking processes.
- Glanside is about finding the right questions, and then considering answers to those questions that add value to your creative work.
- Glanside and Glanside Creative Techniques are available to anybody wanting to enhance the creative nature of their work.
Glanside has its roots in classic creative thinking techniques, but remodelled to provide the freedom needed in the development of creative writing.
Working with Glanside
When scientific evidence shows that it is exactly 10 kilometres from A to B, then the storytelling begins. Because a story that knows how to ask the right creative questions will always take you further.
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For instance...
- What if 'B' is believed to be so far from 'A' that nobody ever goes there?
- How many 'Bs' do we never visit because we think it is too far to go?
- What happens if going to 'B' causes you to question everything you have ever believed in?
The stories illustrated on this website originate from the exploration of possible answers to creative questions.
If there are any questions for which you would like an answer, please feel free to drop me a line.
Applied Glanside
The purpose of this website is to show work produced through the application of Glanside creativity.
- This website includes the full text and creative roots of The Tailor novella.
- You can also download The Tailor in Kindle format. The cost is £1.99, which covers the platform fees with all additional income going to Children In Need.
Information on the key elements of Glanside - and links to some essential creative thinking techniques - can be found at the bottom of this page.
Applied Glanside
The story of The Tailoris used to illustrate how Glanside Creative Techniques can assist the what, why, where, when, viewport, source of conflict - and creative depth - of creative writing.
Outline
The Tailor is the story of a tailoring business, Threads of Arrow Street, and the changing relationship between its founder, Anjali Darji, and her assistant, Panja, whom Anjali's tailoring uncle imposes on the fledgling business.
Composition
Factors that contributed to the book's composition are described below.
Click on the links to access further information.
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Summary
Follow this link for a brief summary of the plot of The Tailor.
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Creative Structure
Each link in the list of creative techniques opens an explanatory page.
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Full Text
The full text of The Tailor is separted into numbered sections.
Featured Work
COLOUR
Colour is the story of a Transporter, an Examiner, a Peacekeeper, a Fishwick, a collection of Cabinet Makers, and two of the youngest appointees to the Decorators of Wetledale. Colour uses the concept, theories and language of colour to examine how we see things through lenses formed through our culture and our lived experience.
Eighty Thousand Words of Colour
The Transporter halted his cart where the track began to descend steeply into Wetledale. Although the mist had nearly lifted, everything the Transporter could see beneath him remained grey, white, brown, or just occasionally the dark red of rust.
- Colour paints the picture of Wetledale, the most northerly of the Seven Valleys.
- Colour runs through the Last Mountains, bringing out the conflict between character and colour.
- Colour threatens the trading associations, darkening the designs of their leaders.
Glanside Creativity
Explore the Glanside Creativity Website. Each of these boxes explores a dimension of Glanside Creativity.