For No Reason At All
I have been having this new opening in creativity. It’s pretty exciting, because while I have been blogging fairly regularly, for me, I have been a really blocked creatively. I’ve had trouble focusing and working on projects important to me. There’s been no movement on any of the fictional projects I’ve been kicking around at all. Of course, I get severely pissed off at myself around this. Obviously, this is no fun.
Well the other week I picked up a copy of the Artist’s Way again. I did it a few years ago with Silly Billy Barker and Silly Crimefighting Kristin and we had a fantastic time, unblocked our creative inner children and became superstars overnight. So, yeah, I forgot about that. Well, I started up on it again. I’m doing the morning pages (getting up earlier to journal for 3 pages, no matter what, ugh!) and taking the the artist dates (taking your inner child on a little date to spend some quality time alone, yay!). And what is opening up for me are new creative outlets.
I’ve started doing my daily mini saga. Its an awesome exercise in smallness. No longer am I trying to create these epics. My ideas have to fit on an index card. They are my little dreams I have during the day. The biggest challenge here has been creating JUST one per day!
I wrote this raunchy and ridiculous internet movie that I will be producing. I need to do another draft, but I will be posting the script here soon.
I started converting one of my cartoons into a post apocalyptic young adult novella.
Inspired by this magazine I used to read (when it existed) Nerve, and a book about the first ten years of their website (Nerve.com, before it became the most counter-intuitive dating website ever), I went and bought a new digital camera. One with a decent lens and complete control of image. It’s cheap, but it will be a great way to learn to take pictures again. I’ll be needing subjects soon.
I have been crating again, all kinds of things. But I think the key is that I am creating for no reason at all. I am creating again for the sake of creating. It seems like maybe I was holding in my ideas, hoping for some kind of monetary reward for all my hard work. I would not create, unless I was rewarded, or it was for something. So, it has been really fun just creating for absolutely no reason. I am creating to create. It’s bliss.
Play with me. If you are interested in the Artists Way, I’d like to lead a group. I got my writing partner a copy. A once weekly meeting would be awesome. If you are interested, message me!
Tags: Creativity, Writing