Creative Writing Workshop

Lesson 4: How to Think Like a Writer.

Four Success Stories

Conrad Hubert returned home after watching his friend use a battery, a bulb, and an electrical switch to illuminate a flowerpot. He decided to put batteries and a bulb inside a tube, and the flashlight was born.

Humphrey O’Sullivan found relief from aching legs, back, and neck by standing on a rubber pad while working in a print shop. Later, he attached a rubber pad to the heel of his shoes, beginning what would be the worldwide distribution of Humphrey O‘Sullivan’s rubber heels.

The grime and grease on the ceilings of factories and commercial buildings dismayed Kaaydah Schatten, an amateur chemist. She invented a cleaning compound that could be sprayed on ceilings, and after the dirt particles drifted to the floor be vacuumed up. As a result she founded a company that sells Ceiling Doctor International franchises worldwide.

Hyman L. Lipman had the ability to fill a need. “Lipman’s idea was a simple one, but essential in our offices, schools and homes. His brainstorm was to cement a piece of rubber onto the top of a standard pencil. Until then, people rubbed their mistakes away with pieces of India Rubber,” said David Lester in a Reader’s Digest article.

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