Voyage of Discovery
Apr. 13th, 2002 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolphins_logWhile writing my morning pages I found a possible key to my creativity. I have a block of inertia that I need to overcome before I can get underway. Whether I'm writing, sketching or painting I have have a problem making the first move. In fact I always seem to find other things that need attention. House work, yard work, financial accounts, Live Journal entries.
As demonstrated at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kehf and Ieva's art salon, once I've overcome that block I have a great time, another good reason for us to have more salon's. Sketching, it seems, I only do at conventions where it's practically impossible. Yet the creativity at the conventions overcome that inertia block quite readily. It's the same with writing. I've got this story in my head where the character's are practically telling me what to write. I've been up for 6 hours and I'm just now settling in to write something.
There are two points where I've overcome the block. I'm working out on a regular basis. It's become a scheduled event. I go to the gym as a matter of course. The morning pages are another success. I don't get up any earlier, but at 6:30 I start to write. I do it because it's the time where I write the pages. It's a matter of course.
So with my other creative endeavors I don't schedule them. I treat them as gravy time, something to do that is unimportant...? Hmmm. I treat them frivolously. And perhaps because I do I feel a little guilty pursuing them. Now there's a startling thought.
This morning I decided that these creative projects need as much attention as the housework and all that other crap. So that's all from me. I have a story to write.
As demonstrated at
kehf and Ieva's art salon, once I've overcome that block I have a great time, another good reason for us to have more salon's. Sketching, it seems, I only do at conventions where it's practically impossible. Yet the creativity at the conventions overcome that inertia block quite readily. It's the same with writing. I've got this story in my head where the character's are practically telling me what to write. I've been up for 6 hours and I'm just now settling in to write something.There are two points where I've overcome the block. I'm working out on a regular basis. It's become a scheduled event. I go to the gym as a matter of course. The morning pages are another success. I don't get up any earlier, but at 6:30 I start to write. I do it because it's the time where I write the pages. It's a matter of course.
So with my other creative endeavors I don't schedule them. I treat them as gravy time, something to do that is unimportant...? Hmmm. I treat them frivolously. And perhaps because I do I feel a little guilty pursuing them. Now there's a startling thought.
This morning I decided that these creative projects need as much attention as the housework and all that other crap. So that's all from me. I have a story to write.
