Loving The Process Of Creating
Don’t we all love to create? Writers have to love the process of creating. They have to sit down all by themselves day after day (or night) and type words to create a novel. This may take a year. When you think of it taking a year it can become a bit daunting, especially when you have so much other stuff going on. But when it is broken down into little pieces it really isn’t hard at all. We only have right now anyway and we are natural creators. Everyone on earth is.
Think small and big things will be accomplished. After all, the mighty sequoia started from just one little seed.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Leigh Ann – Such a cheery boost! It made me turn to Julia Cameron’s THE ARTIST”S WAY. She has such good tings to say about creativity.
“Instead of allowing ourselves a creative journey, we focus on the length of the trip.” Julia Cameron)
Page length. Word count. Time committemnt. No wonder the muse runs, shrieking, for the hills. I beat this by chopping the project up into tiny, chewable mouthfuls. (As in – “Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time.”) And I make little chapter-a-week charts that I paste stars on for completion
“Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.” — JC
Thats why I use star stickers and other whimsical touches.
“Creativity lies not in the done, but in the doing.” –JC
Staggering. A book is not creative. The writing of it was. A book is just the tracks the muse left when she danced with you in a moonlit clearing.
Lets go dance!
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October 11th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
This is so true, and SO hard to remember. I constantly battle the feeling that setting out to put words on a page is a gigantic task. What better way to frighten oneself away from trying at all? The vision of the completed masterpiece can so easily get in the way — but the job really is almost always accomplished one tiny, insignificant-looking bit at a time. Even creation myths from around the world recognize this: they usually allow their respective deities at least few days to get the universe in place. Why should we writers, mere mortals, feel we should do more, better, faster?
September 25th, 2011 at 10:54 am
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