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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #380 - Quick Creative

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mark shares some tips on how to be creative quickly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm putting on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.4

Okay. So today, today's topic came by in an interesting way. So every morning when I'm doing my podcast, normally on Mondays and Tuesdays, I do my podcast on the way to work. If I mess up, then I do it on Wednesdays or Thursdays or if I get behind. Anyway, normally Monday's and Tuesday they do my podcast. So normally in the morning,

0:24.8

I get up. I have to do various stuff and I'm running out the door. You know, in the morning,

0:30.1

I do my head-to-head. I have to make my comic. I have to get my kids ready. I get up, get ready myself, get my kids ready, make their lunches, get the kids off to school. I'm just doing a lot of things. But among those times,

0:40.7

I also got to figure out what my podcast topic is. Usually I figure it out the day of, sometimes

0:47.0

if I've done a little prep for it, like sometimes if I'm going to go through a set, I'll have to do some work ahead of time. So I know those times I know it. So if I've done a little prep work, sometimes I know ahead of time what I'm doing.

0:58.1

But a lot of mornings, I literally, like, I'm just about to go out the door.

1:01.5

I'm like, okay, what's my podcast topic?

1:03.5

And I was joking with my wife, I said, I don't have a podcast.

1:06.0

What's my podcast topic? topic. I go, maybe it should be about making podcast topics. And I realized that actually was an

1:11.7

interesting idea. I'll be a little broader than that. So my topic today is how to be creative

1:18.3

quickly when you have to be creative. How do you, like one of the things I know is sometimes people

1:24.1

like, well, let me think on the idea. I'll sit about it and I'll let it percolate for a while.

1:28.0

And that's awesome.

1:28.9

And I do that a lot.

1:30.0

You know, a lot of thought for me is just taking ideas and sitting with them for a while.

1:35.0

And I'm a big fan of that.

1:37.4

But sometimes you can't do that.

1:41.2

Like I mentioned my comic, for example. Every morning I wake up while I'm getting ready,

1:44.9

I have to make a magic comic every weekday. And I don't have like my, I've been doing it now

1:51.2

for, I think as of today was my 1,366 comic. I do it every day. And part of the thing is part of sort of the practice of it is knowing every day I'm going to do it.

2:05.7

So I have to kind of find a joke, you know, and that one of the things about it is, and I talked about this one actually did my podcast on my comic, is that I like that, I like sort of, I like having times when I'm forced myself to do something,

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