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How Award-Winning Author, Artist & Filmmaker Leopoldo Gout Writes

The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

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Getting Into the Zone

Everybody has to find their own kind of trigger and to me, my technique is my research but also my I do a meditation kind of trip when I'm doing big paintings. My way is I start to repeat this visual concerns almost like Jack Nicholson in the shining, writing the same word over and over again. And then what I do is I have a very acute sense of memory and scent like even I dream with sense and sometimes I wake up dreaming of my grandfather and he's sent to steal in the room. Those are kind of my grid of getting into the zone and there are visual concerns that produce a kind of a zone state if you can call it. Some people meditate, some

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