crisis of creativity

[abbzug]

i'm feeling a surprising and renewed sense of creative motivation lately. the problem is that what i had been working on just doesn't seem as relevant as it used to. i think maybe i'm just a different person now and those old ideas don't fit as well as they once did. the other ideas i have in my head are still circling without landing. i'm one of

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[eve_prime]

I'm intrigued by the ideas that are circling without landing. Maybe the ideas could journal themselves a bit, and a bigger picture might emerge?

Or maybe the change in what's relevant is itself a topic to write about? Some of my LJ friends have been writing some very nice passages lately about their life transitions from professional into near-full-time parenthood and what it means for their self-concept.

[abbzug]

actually, the ideas that keep circling without landing (that's a phrase that one of my first creative writing teacher in college used about my work!) do have to do with parenting and motherhood. but there's sooooo much out there already - it's even got its own genre, coined the "momoir" - that i don't really feel like i have anything need to add. i've been puzzling over how my disparate interests these days: animals, parenting, nature, are interconnected and can be worked into something larger. but so far, i'm still just puzzling!

i wish i had time to work them out via LJ. this little one is still, for all intents and purposes, a newborn in terms of her demands on me.

[eve_prime]

I can't remember, did you ever read the John Tallmadge essay on pregnancy and childbirth as a human connection to wild nature? Maybe adding that into the mix would help reveal your own voice on the topic.

[abbzug]

you know, i did, but honestly i can't remember a word of it. i should go find it and see if it helps percolate any thoughts!

[abbzug]

oh, and i like the idea of writing about the change, but i still just can't figure out what i want to say!