Creativity Meme
From the altfriday5:
1. What creative things are you doing?
Right now, most of my creative energy has been going into a new game design on urban counterinsurgency called "Virtualia". See following post.
2. What motivates or enables you to get them done?
Sometimes, it's time. I had to get the game ready for the symposium, that was a definite deadline. Other times, I don't have the time pressure, and I have found these things don't come along very well if you try to force them. Every idea has its time.
3. What creative things do you want to be doing, but aren't?
Visual art - I haven't done any visual stuff in a long time. I'd like to do some artist trading cards again, or use some of that printmaking stuff I have sitting in the garage.
Casting - if it ever warms up and stops raining I want to get out and melt some metal! I promised Nadine I would make her a Buddha, and haven't been able to work on that.
Writing - I have two games being published in October and November of 2009, and I have to write 4-5,000 word lead articles on their subjects (Spanish Civil War and Sino-Japanese War) by the end of the year.
Music - I wanna do improv noise and things with shadesofwinter, but we never seem to get it together to do that.
Game design - I've got lots of ideas for new things but no time to make them jell.
4. What stops you from doing them?
Time. Never enough, when I'm working full time. Weekend time is at a premium.
Space. Got lots of stuff, but little space in which to manipulate it.
Life. Things like cooking and cleaning and such.
Work. Eats into time available of course, and makes me tired.
Other people. Time spent dealing with other humans = less time doing creative stuff. But if I didn't do the first, I wouldn't do much of the second either.
Moods. Sometimes I feel so dull and uncreative/unmotivated, especially in the winter. Sometimes I feel that I am wasting my time making trivial stupid things.
5. Are you distressed at the thought of the things you aren't doing? Why or why not? If yes, how do you deal with this distress?
Well, I do get annoyed about it, but I try to feel good that at least I have a choice about how to spend my spare time, or that I even have spare time in the first place! If I go long periods without being able to make or do anything it bothers me more.
1. What creative things are you doing?
Right now, most of my creative energy has been going into a new game design on urban counterinsurgency called "Virtualia". See following post.
2. What motivates or enables you to get them done?
Sometimes, it's time. I had to get the game ready for the symposium, that was a definite deadline. Other times, I don't have the time pressure, and I have found these things don't come along very well if you try to force them. Every idea has its time.
3. What creative things do you want to be doing, but aren't?
Visual art - I haven't done any visual stuff in a long time. I'd like to do some artist trading cards again, or use some of that printmaking stuff I have sitting in the garage.
Casting - if it ever warms up and stops raining I want to get out and melt some metal! I promised Nadine I would make her a Buddha, and haven't been able to work on that.
Writing - I have two games being published in October and November of 2009, and I have to write 4-5,000 word lead articles on their subjects (Spanish Civil War and Sino-Japanese War) by the end of the year.
Music - I wanna do improv noise and things with shadesofwinter, but we never seem to get it together to do that.
Game design - I've got lots of ideas for new things but no time to make them jell.
4. What stops you from doing them?
Time. Never enough, when I'm working full time. Weekend time is at a premium.
Space. Got lots of stuff, but little space in which to manipulate it.
Life. Things like cooking and cleaning and such.
Work. Eats into time available of course, and makes me tired.
Other people. Time spent dealing with other humans = less time doing creative stuff. But if I didn't do the first, I wouldn't do much of the second either.
Moods. Sometimes I feel so dull and uncreative/unmotivated, especially in the winter. Sometimes I feel that I am wasting my time making trivial stupid things.
5. Are you distressed at the thought of the things you aren't doing? Why or why not? If yes, how do you deal with this distress?
Well, I do get annoyed about it, but I try to feel good that at least I have a choice about how to spend my spare time, or that I even have spare time in the first place! If I go long periods without being able to make or do anything it bothers me more.