Archive for December, 2006
Five creative resolutions for 2007
Posted on December 31, 2006, by dazzer67, under creativity basics.
Not wanting to totally miss out on the bandwagon of giving advice when the majority of the next few hours are going to be spent destroying brain cells, I thought I’d give you a short list of creative resolutions for you to ponder as you sober up in the next few days - have a creative 2007.
1 Clear the decks - remove as much junk and clutter from your life as possible, this will release your creative energy.
2 Set some goals - if you don’t know what you want to create how will you ever be able to create it [that's rhetorical].
3 I don’t like it - read (although I suppose watching could work, at a pinch - although TV drains creative energy) a style of writing you don’t like, or don’t normally read. This is a wonderful source of inspiration.
4 Make time - there is no excuse for not having time to be creative, if that is what you want to do you’ll find or make the time to do it.
5 Share it around - c’mon don’t be shy. If you are being creative then let the world know. Free web-hosting is all around, no excuses.
Once again, have a wonderful and creative 2007!
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Freeing the inner child
Posted on December 20, 2006, by dazzer67, under creativity basics, inspiration.
I was watching a program on TV and there was a wonderful scene where an eight year old boy and his mother were spending some quality time together. (It was Honey, we’re killing the kids) They were doing some creative art and the boy had made a cardboard castle and they were now in the process of painting it. The boy had decided that it should be painted in a camouflage style and was going about giving the walls a wonderful yellow and green pattern. The mum turned around to him and suggested that the doors be painted a traditional, wooden brown. He declined this offer and painted them in an equally bright camouflage style.
What this illustrated to me was how much our creativity is shaped and perhaps hindered by convention. Imagination and creativity is about doing things different; it is about being original and breaking convention.
That isn’t to say that everything we create can’t conform in any way shape or form, although this does depend on how ‘abstract’ we want to be. It does mean that as we grow older and we accept what the norm is we can create barriers to our creativity. This is true in writing, art and musical creativity. So as you approach your next creative project why not ask yourself this question before you start:
‘Does it have to be like that?’
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Creative QotD
Posted on December 4, 2006, by dazzer67, under inspiration, quotes.
‘Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative’
Oscar Wilde
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