Sue Woofle, 'Unlocking Creativity Workshop'.

Creativity or success is progressive. 
There is no set way to writing. 
Do not expect to know what your story will be.
Just find the thing you dare not say. 
- Sue Woofle.

Sue discussed neuroscientists, the left-brain and right-brain theory, IQ tests and creative tests. This lead her to the results of the Colin Martindale, who studied the brainwaves of creative and non-creative types in the 1970's. There is this calm state produced by creative people, defocusing the attention in order to access more of the memory and mind, and then peaking in brain activity.

Sue's workshop followed with suggestions of how to enter this state, and she was quite successful. About a third of the room who started with difficulty reflected that they had reached that point before the end of the workshop. I'm not sure if they were fibbing in order to protect themselves, or hoist some sort of creative reputation- as people tend to do when they are competing for acknowledgement. This is not a suggestion that they were, just an observation that it's a natural occurrence when in a room full of people with similar aspirations and talents.
Regardless, everyone seemed to believe that they could reach this level of the loose construing mind.

She followed with how to connect fragments, colour coding and other reoccurrence when writing.
At that point, I was heavily distracted by the first half of the workshop.

Whilst everyone had 'successfully' reached the state, I had found a complication.
At first I was embarrassed by it, but after some reflection I was certain that others had probably sensed the same implication when attempting to write in past.

When writing, I alway draw back on experience. I have seen, heard, felt and thought. There is an abundance of inspiration within, and I often call on it to assist me when explaining and detailing situations on paper.
The complication I felt when Sue began, was that as I felt myself entering it, and there were memories opened within me that I did not want to resurface. There is a large vault that a person keeps to silence those thoughts that haven't quite been worked through yet. Things, I wasn't ready to deal with. I spent the rest of the day attempting to regain a little control of myself, and kept largely to my own company.

On reflection, I'd like to suggest that perhaps linear thinking is not the sign of the non-creative, but the barrier used in order to battle another day.

There is a choice to write linearly as the lull is Pandora's box of memories,
to write without difficulty, 
one must relinquish those fears.