Creativity and the inner voice, part 1
Aug. 15th, 2002 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinblokeMy creative spark has been simmering in the fireplace lately and I've been yearning for it to flare up and burn again, which it has refused to, which is frustrating because lately I've had the increasing urge to create something or write anything and give life to something from my imagination but ideas have sat squat in my mind and sulked, prose has felt forced and stories just haven't been coming out.
My main problem, well speaking creativity wise at least, is I tend to get inspiration or ideas at the most awkward moments, usually when I'm walking, driving or just away from anything else; then a shred of a line of a poem will pop into my mind and unless I can hold onto it it'll wriggle away and swim off down whichever stream of thought is currently taking me over the rapids. After a talk with a friend yesterday I'm considering getting myself a little digital tape recorder so I can at least capture these moments somehow and then produce something from them, something wonderful as they often say in 2010.
The other problem is that it's all in the moment and feeling, at that particular second the idea strikes a small wheel starts driving the thought and I need to jump on almost immediately and start writing or creating or I've lost it, feelings drive these thoughts more than anything since I've generally found when I'm either depressed or happy they tend to come along more often, usually in the mind of whichever emotion is currently hogging my mindset, which is fair enough really.
But sitting as I am in a kind of Beta-neutral emotion for the past week or so it's all not popping out, I can feel this raging wall of creativity bouncing around inside me waiting for something to be made, a thread to come unstitched or a word to trigger a ravenging ramble of something or other... hmmm, note to self, deconstruction and inner thought is creativity of investigation of the self, ergo, you have by wondering about creativity and your lack thereof, created something.
Well, that'll work for a start until I can think of a way to describe the sensation of neutrality.
Gear change and back to work.
My main problem, well speaking creativity wise at least, is I tend to get inspiration or ideas at the most awkward moments, usually when I'm walking, driving or just away from anything else; then a shred of a line of a poem will pop into my mind and unless I can hold onto it it'll wriggle away and swim off down whichever stream of thought is currently taking me over the rapids. After a talk with a friend yesterday I'm considering getting myself a little digital tape recorder so I can at least capture these moments somehow and then produce something from them, something wonderful as they often say in 2010.
The other problem is that it's all in the moment and feeling, at that particular second the idea strikes a small wheel starts driving the thought and I need to jump on almost immediately and start writing or creating or I've lost it, feelings drive these thoughts more than anything since I've generally found when I'm either depressed or happy they tend to come along more often, usually in the mind of whichever emotion is currently hogging my mindset, which is fair enough really.
But sitting as I am in a kind of Beta-neutral emotion for the past week or so it's all not popping out, I can feel this raging wall of creativity bouncing around inside me waiting for something to be made, a thread to come unstitched or a word to trigger a ravenging ramble of something or other... hmmm, note to self, deconstruction and inner thought is creativity of investigation of the self, ergo, you have by wondering about creativity and your lack thereof, created something.
Well, that'll work for a start until I can think of a way to describe the sensation of neutrality.
Gear change and back to work.
