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A Love (Open) Letter To Creatives And Other Super-Empaths
The symbiotic relationship between empathy and creativity is often left unexplored.
Creatives Everywhere
The most creative people I know are very empathic. In fact, I don’t think I know any creative person who isn’t an empath. And now that I think about it, I don’t think I know any empath who isn’t extremely creative.
Creativity isn’t confined to writers, painters, musicians and whatever else that comes to mind first when we think of the word. Now more than ever, creatives take more forms than we can even imagine, and creativity is part and parcel of more and more new jobs.
The Importance Of Characters
If we look at the core of creativity, we will be looking at our capacity to make up stories, stories that are somehow more real than reality itself. Stories need characters and characters need motivations; stories are the creative’s way of conveying character journeys, even in cases where the only character is the writer or the reader.
In any case, for characters to be relatable, a writer must dive deep into their psyches. We won’t buy a villain whose only role in the story is to prevent the main character from achieving their goal…