Creativity
Before I read the "With a Little Help From My Friends" post, I had been thinking about how and why we have all (apparently) (more or less) started looking to Curtis to keep this blog going. I had been thinking that it is his "day job" to come up with ideas that will appeal to a lot of different kinds of folks, and that this is why he is able to get his creative juices flowing every day (almost) to come up with something interesting to post.
On the other hand, I find myself thinking "oh I don't really have anything interesting to say," and maybe most of you do too. It got me thinking about how hard it must be to be a writer, or any kind of creative professional in general. Probably most of us feel like we spend more time than we'd like reacting to others, whether it's news stories, emails, or needy children. Maybe in a "simpler time" it was easier to be creative, because you had no choice: if you wanted to hear music, you played it, and if you couldn't read music, you "wrote" it. But I'm not sure. Maybe being creative is like being in shape: if you don't go to the gym and work out, you become flabby. In other words, in a "simpler time" it was just as easy to be lazy as it is now!
So I'm gonna try. It's a little intimidating to think that what we write here can be read by anyone in the world; I've already seen a couple of comments by folks I don't remember from our high school class (sorry if you were and I forgot -- you hereby have permission to give me shit!). But what the heck. There's no better anthem for muddling through than "I get by with a little help from my friends." It got me through school anyway.
On the other hand, I find myself thinking "oh I don't really have anything interesting to say," and maybe most of you do too. It got me thinking about how hard it must be to be a writer, or any kind of creative professional in general. Probably most of us feel like we spend more time than we'd like reacting to others, whether it's news stories, emails, or needy children. Maybe in a "simpler time" it was easier to be creative, because you had no choice: if you wanted to hear music, you played it, and if you couldn't read music, you "wrote" it. But I'm not sure. Maybe being creative is like being in shape: if you don't go to the gym and work out, you become flabby. In other words, in a "simpler time" it was just as easy to be lazy as it is now!
So I'm gonna try. It's a little intimidating to think that what we write here can be read by anyone in the world; I've already seen a couple of comments by folks I don't remember from our high school class (sorry if you were and I forgot -- you hereby have permission to give me shit!). But what the heck. There's no better anthem for muddling through than "I get by with a little help from my friends." It got me through school anyway.
posted by R @ 8:08 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:06 AM,
Unknown said…
I'll try to do my part in posting interesting material. At
least, it will be interesting to me. :^)
My preference is, however, in referring to a merely human
endeavor, to use "imaginative" instead of "creative".
I am not arguing that everyone should do as I do in this
regard, but my self-imposed constraint is an interesting
exercise for me.
In my own mind and speech, I reserve the verb "create" (and
its derivatives) so that its subject is only ever God, and
its object is only ever something that has existence in
itself.
"God is creating me right now," is a good and true example.
"God creates evil," is a false statement because evil does
not have any existence in itself. The relationship between
good and evil is like the relationship between a windshield
and a crack in the windshield. The windshield can exist
without the crack, but the crack cannot exist without the
windshield.
The crack only has existence in something else, not in
itself. So too, evil exists only as the imperfection in a
thing that actually does have existence in itself.
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