As a writer, I follow many, talk with several; and listen a lot.
There are those who feel that they must complete 5 pages a day. There are those that don’t.
If you are passionate about it; writing 15 a day or more could be a piece of cake, or a bloody nightmare.
You simply cannot force creativity….
I have crawled out of bed at 3 AM and worked till well past noon the next day, as I was inspired. I have also stopped, and not touched the keyboard when nothing was happening.
There is a flow to the creative process and “external shit” can mess with that flow.
Maybe you don’t feel good, maybe the neighbor or spouse or sibling pissed you off…
Writing and painting to me are one in the same…I am an artist; I paint with oils…I can paint from my head, or from a model, or from a picture…it depends what I am going for.
I can also paint with words. In many cases I am much better with words than oils. My paintings have sold in many different countries, and yet I aspire to invoke emotions through language. Many artist do it through painting, or music, and that is all great and good. While I too play instruments; that is not my passion… I love music but telling a story…Ah…That excites me….!
Tonight I had a block…The story stood still and I sat here… I looked at the words and my characters were frozen. A fluid story stopped … as my creative process stopped….
I walked away…took a long shower and in that shower the next chapter sprang to life as the water danced off my hands and arms and…the rest of me….
Sometimes you simply have to wash the block away…..
Five pages a day….no…..I could force it but it would suck, and be badly created, and poorly read and most probably deleted the next day when I reread it….
You simply cannot force creativity….
-Best
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