I write my best material on the bike. Or in the pool.
Sentences like poetry flow from me as i think and pedal streets, or splash up and down the lanes. The repetitive rhythm of the physical act turning the mind's creative engine. It sounds good in my head and i picture myself writing it all down as soon as I'm home.
But the words fall away into the gutters i ride past; left behind in the puddles pool-side. When i come home the necessities take priority - those too-dull-to describe things - and there's not time, energy or impetus left to write by the end of the night. I sit at a desk at work all day. I can't do it again when i get home.
It's as if when I do the inactive sitting, my creative brain goes inactive too. It's active when my body is. As is the inspiration and motivation.
Perhaps I need to build in a dictaphone into the handlebars somehow.
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3 comments:
The eternal problem - how can U create anything good on your own time, when day-to-day life already takes so much?
So much easier to watch the created works of established professionals.
....i wonder how they did it...? :s
The Red Dragon
But that's exactly the challenge.
If everyone thought like that the world would be a much poorer place.
Plus the "non-professionals" don't have to compromise or sell-out for the sake of economic rationalism.
Plenty of artists accept that their day job is a necessary evil, to support their after hours creative work.
Maybe the trick is to have a non-taxing day job. Eg The painter, Rousseau, was a customs officer.
I would imagine Customs Officer would be a terrible job.
Everyone resents you for doing your job right. Everyone hates you when you get it wrong :(
I once had a job packing and unpacking crates onto pallets all day - it was fresh out of high school and I loved it.
But I think that was because I was enjoying the freedom of not worrying about homework... :\
3-of-Sticks
PS: sorry to hear your ex is playing mind games. But hey - his muse energy is pretty good! Nice entry about the SMS thing! :]
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