There's lots more trimming we need to do at home. Okay, I'll go back home. If by sending stories to my nieces and nephew I can help them think of themselves as storytellers, then they will develop a knack at visualizing the stories that suggest themselves in their own lives. Being able to dispatch a new story moments after creating it certainly is a creativity inducing thing. I might not be inclined to write stories if it weren't for the ease with which I can send them online.
All human beings have self-conceptions about their creative powers.
These self-conceptions can easily be strengthened, enhanced, and stimulated. I've come to learn that email communications can be an ideal way of nurturing the budding creative spirit that lies within all of us. I visit with my nieces and nephew in person two or three times each year. But we've tremendously enjoyed interacting with one another online in between those visits. For me, email has always been a tool that's perfectly suited for conveying a playful mindset.