Well, that's why I posted it. If I were just whining about not having the time or energy, that wouldn't be a very interesting post. But the idea that creativity is just your brain's expression of "nervous energy" is at least thoughtful, if not exactly the formula for world peace.
I think the word "relaxed" is key in your "relaxed balance" statement. Perhaps that's the part I'm missing. Although I'm a very laid-back person, I'm not very "relaxed" when it comes to writing or any art, because I'm so judgmental about it, always comparing myself.
Perhaps that's part of the problem. I have a well-educated, critic's eye, but I don't have the skill to create something that pleases that eye, to execute a project to the rules that I know chapter and verse as an observer.
Certainly the advice to suspend judgment is valid, and something I hear over and over again. But I don't think that's my only issue. The lifestyle certainly doesn't help, and that's what I'm struggling with now more than anything, but it's also just the way my brain works. I can't make up a bedtime story on the spot. My creativity is always something produced by struggling through a tortuous process. Unless it's a journal entry spurred by idle thoughts, or my Ornyesque brand of preformance art that is mostly just the result of random neurons firing.
I think the word "relaxed" is key in your "relaxed balance" statement. Perhaps that's the part I'm missing. Although I'm a very laid-back person, I'm not very "relaxed" when it comes to writing or any art, because I'm so judgmental about it, always comparing myself.
Perhaps that's part of the problem. I have a well-educated, critic's eye, but I don't have the skill to create something that pleases that eye, to execute a project to the rules that I know chapter and verse as an observer.
Certainly the advice to suspend judgment is valid, and something I hear over and over again. But I don't think that's my only issue. The lifestyle certainly doesn't help, and that's what I'm struggling with now more than anything, but it's also just the way my brain works. I can't make up a bedtime story on the spot. My creativity is always something produced by struggling through a tortuous process. Unless it's a journal entry spurred by idle thoughts, or my Ornyesque brand of preformance art that is mostly just the result of random neurons firing.
Dunno. But thanks for contributing to the thread!
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