Today has been an amazing day all around. Friends have gotten bites on job applications, Jake has been an absolute beast of salesover at his studio, and I’m about to wrap up A God Grown Old outline version 1.0. So I’m certainly not here to complain or bitch and moan – I just have an interesting thought and quandary.
I’ll occasionally browse Tumblr’s tags just to see what’s out there. I find it to be a great source of off-the-wall ideas and inspiration, since I don’t exactly go in there looking for anything in particular and it’s rare that none of those pretty little slides don’t catch my fancy. Sometimes I see stuff like this, though, and I wonder: is there a creative door in my head I just haven’t unlocked yet? The imagination it must take to envision and then produce those images is…staggering. Yet I know that I have a creative power…I just think it’s not quite tapped yet.
I wonder, then, how to unlock that creative door. I’m aware of part of my problem: a fear of failure, or, rather, a fear of wasting time. Wasting time is, I tend to imagine, what happens when I get really excited about an idea and then show it to someone and all they can do is “thpppt” at it. Perhaps that’s also the fear of being rejected, since actually opening that creative door means exposing truer and truer parts of myself to the world.
I would love to find some resources, exercises, and essays on how to be more creative (possibly avoiding drug use. I’m not quite in need of mushrooms yet). Does anyone know of some helpful links or books I could check out? Or some activities/exercises I could try out?
