From 2000 until the end of 2003 I kept a spiritual journal – a journal that I tracked my ups and downs in carving a spiritual path. I’m editing it now to publish on my website – Some of it is garbage, but most of it is valuable – even nice and easy to read.
This blog (and my next Writing for the Reading ezine from my site) will initiate a similar journal on creativity (mostly mine). What makes it interesting is the constraints I’ve imposed on myself. I’m a coach and I’m targeting a constant flow of clients, 6 a week. Why 6? Fewer interferes with cash flow; more interferes with my life.
I write two blogs and two ezines and I’m committed to writing at least one article each week. The combination of these activities leaves me no time for inspiration. And I’ve never taken a course in writing; my training is two-fold – my reading and years of writing.
So looking at creating will surely be interesting to me – and hopefully, to you. I’m going to publish this journal a year from now.
In last week’s posting I spoke about a basic idea I have about creativity – I analogize it to punning… combining something from one place and using it in another to produce an incongruous result. So I titled this write and wrong. If this were about ladders, I might have titled it write and rung which, for a punster is a multiple pun. But what that really is for me is that in using language, everything I know is often available. So you may groan.
Useful Quotations
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. Milne
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward De Bono
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
Creative Corner
Sometimes a day in May
Is as rare as a day in June
Sometimes a hastily written note
Is seen as art
Things are known to happen backwards
And things that shouldn’t be just are
Conclusions are foolish
And unavoidable
Yet we see
Again and again
That no chains are
Inescapable
Come join me.
