To take the test, see Anne Hart’s Blog at: http://creativityquestionnaires.blogspot.com/ Creativity Questionnaires--Writing Creativity Behavioral Preferences This test also appears in Anne Hart’s paperback book titled 30+ Brain-Exercising Creative Coach Businesses to Open: How to Use Writing, Music, Drama & Art Therapy Techniques for Healing, Anne Hart, M.A. ASJA Press, Jan. 2007. Author’s Web site is at http://annehart.tripod.com. The book and creativity test may be browsed at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-42710-3.
CREATIVE WRITING EMPLOYMENT PERSONALITY PREFERENCE ASSESSMENTIf you’re an expressive arts therapist—creative writing, bibliotherapy, dance, drama, art, music, movement…you are “tech support” specializing in behavior, critical thinking, emotional response, actions, and reactions in relation to various personality preferences, attitudes, traits, and aptitudes. If you’re a writing coach or a coach-consultant in any of the arts, your clients call you when they have problems with their product or manuscript.
You spend your day talking to professionals that ask you to solve problems or resolve conflicts in a tangible object—a script, music score, or design. As a therapist, your “tech support” role emphasizes behavior. Sometimes the behavior and the product are one.
If you talk to people having a bad day, will you have a bad day, too? Here’s one sample of my creative writing preference and aptitude classifier assessments to take yourself and to offer to your clients. Design your own to fit your particular requirements as a coach, consultant, or therapist.
Take the “Howling Wolf’s Scribe” Creative Writing Preference Classifier
©2007 by Anne Hart Are you best-suited to be a digital interactive or ethnographic story writer, a nonfiction writer, or a mystery writer using historic themes? Do you think like a fiction writer? Take the writing style preference classifier and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using Zabeyko’s facts and acts.
Which genre is yours--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction, decisive or investigative? Would you rather write for readers that need to interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits you? What’s your writing profile?
Take this ancient echoes writing genre interest classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more creative. Do you prefer to write investigative, logical nonfiction or imaginative fiction—or a mixture of both? There are 35 questions—seven questions for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices.
The Choices: Grounded Verve
Rational Enthusiastic
Decisive Investigative
Loner Outgoing
Traditional Change-Driven
Writer's Creativity Style Preference Classifier Use the clues to inspire your own creativity in writing historic or mystery fiction. You are a mystery writer working on an interactive audio book of stories with clues for the Web about a scribe and music composer prodigy, Zabeyko, who lives and works in Wolkowysk (Howling Wolf), White Russia (now Belarus) near Bialystok of 1812, in the ancient Grodno province the time Napoleon visited. Zabeyko’s father, Kutkowski, has unending adventures trying to track down the person who gifted the multi-lingual musical prodigy child, Zabeyko, with a golden scholarship to study musical performance far away in Venice.
Zabeyko, son of a Tatar prince, is the young, adopted son of the famous Baltic wolf tamer, Polotskay Kutkowski. Surrounding the area is a forest known historically for its howling wolves. In Kutkowski’s gentle hands, the wolves sing opera as they stand on the rooftops of light-reflecting gingerbread-type houses in the midst of snowy winters and, tall, fresh-scented pine trees.
It’s December, and the holidays are being celebrated among Wolkowysk’s diverse and expanding population. The nation has just fallen back again under Russian rule.
When music prodigy, Zabeyko mysteriously disappears from his music tutor, Azarello, in Vienna when he was supposed to be studying music with that tutor in Venice.
You--as the mystery writer and scribe are in a race against time to save Zabeyko’s teenaged fiancée, Jadwiga, from being forced into an unwilling marriage with Zabeyko’s first childhood music tutor and male nanny, Jagello of the Zamkover forest. Jagello told Zabyeko’s father that his son, probably murdered by river bandits, is buried in Vienna on lands owned by the music tutor from Venice who has fled to family in Vienna.
You are hired as the scribe and investigator, much like an early investigative journalist who must follow clues and solve the mystery for his step father, Polotskay Kutkowski. But there is another famous wolf tamer in town. Your ‘avatar’name is Efrosinia.
It is Jagello, who owns a competing traveling circus. Both Kutkowski and Jagello are wealthy land owners who compete in their circus acts, and both own equally prosperous traveling circuses.
Jagello is determined to become the greatest wolf tamer of them all in his traveling circus by marrying the wealthy Jadwiga. How will you write this interactive story, according to your writing style preferences?
CluesThe leading character is Napoleon’s greatest enemy of the howling wolf forest, a wise, older woman, Efrosinia, the scribe and healer who knows exactly which plants will heal and nurse the villagers back to health. Efrosinia, the scribe and healer is rightly named after Efrosinia Polatskaya, a patron saint (who took a new name, Pradslava) of the land now called Belarus. You are now Efrosinia.
As a leading character, Efrosinia is a woman of 1812 fortunate enough to have inherited wealth from an ancestral line of architects. She grew up as a friend to the Kutkowski extended family. This character, Efrosinia, is your alter ego and takes on your own personality.
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