Create like twitter? Instant creativity
Posted on June 6, 2007, by dazzer67, under perspiration.
Here’s the sob story. As can be seen from my previous post I haven’t been too well, in fact, all-in-all, I have been under the weather for about three weeks. Even when I posted the apology I wasn’t fully over the virus. Also, you can see by the lack of posts that I haven’t really been in the ‘zone’, or have I?
I currently have a document with ideas for posts that contains a good thirty or so embryonic concepts. This document is where I turn to in my process, it forms part of my preparation to create content for imaginality. This process has worked fine since the site started, and is, in fact, the underlying thesis of creativity that I propose here. However, that is not to say that you must stick rigidly to a process. The issue I was having was not with the thesis but with how I was applying the process. I was leaving all my creativity, with regard to imaginality, to one process. When I turned to the ideas document I loved them all but was not well enough to sit down and work them up as complete posts. The amount of perspiration I could expend on creativity was very little.
I was still having ideas, and the preparation had, and was, being done, so what could, or should, I have done?
One option would have been to store up the ideas and keep them safe and bubbling away until I was able to give them the effort they deserved. However, some ideas could have been expressed simply and quickly.
Recently I have got involved in Twitter, where you can post up to 160 characters via instant messaging, mobile phone or the web. The creative aspect of Twitter is wonderful, especially with regard to ‘less perspiration’. You are limited in what you can say; you can prepare it, have an inspirational idea but you can’t go beyond the limit of the expression. I have seen similar ideas on both facebook and the new Zooomr iteration, and the net buzz around Twitter is considerable.
So next time you have an idea, think about how it needs to be expressed. Does it need to take ages and a lot of effort, using the best materials and top software, or can it be handed over to the rest of the world in a short, simple and less strenuous manner. Sometimes it may be a good idea to think like Twitter.
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