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#on creativity
brunettebabbydoll · 4 months
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Catch your ideas in the void. Capture every single idea and write it down on the train, on a walk, in bed, or in the shower. If you wake up with an idea, turn on a lamp and record it. Every idea is crucial, each and every idea has the power to be something so incredibly grand. Ginsberg said, “first thought, best thought”. We shouldn’t ignore our initial thoughts, we shouldn’t lose them. Every fleeting creative thought is one worth remembering
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wildthingsandmagic · 24 days
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Rick Rubin, The Creative Act - A Way of Being
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supercollide · 15 days
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explaining
moments from a little life
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on writing poems, fall 2022
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morningnoodles · 3 months
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as a young reader and general consumer of media, i used to wonder why and how people can create angsty works but now that i've dabbled on them myself, i get it now
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ashtrayfloors · 6 months
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1. I make my faith in my hands. A writer can declare faith in nothing but must bear faith in her hands. Hands are the inventors of language. We make words for what we must do. Our words are made of hands. 2. The pen isn’t separate from the hand but like all instruments it is an extension of the hand. Pen becomes hand. 3. Written letters, manuscripts, are drawn like threads from the manus, are connected to the manus. Manus as puppeteer—bowing the n in supplication, lifting then lowering the leg of the h as it breaks into a run, opening the mouth of the v to its white teeth, making a cup of the u then drinking from it. 4. We press our hands into the page until the page becomes our body. We are an ouroboros—writing ourselves onto ourselves.
—Natalie Diaz, from "The Hand has Twenty-Seven Bones" (Tin House)
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continuous-spec · 3 days
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This morning, I woke up thinking about a fanfic I read probably a decade ago. Throughout the years, I thought back to it here and there. It was a soul-crushing, beautiful short story. And it's stayed with me, obviously. I never commented or left a kudo. Unfortunately, I can not find it for the life of me to leave a comment now.
My point is that even if your fiction, story, or creative endeavor isn't getting attention, that does not mean it's not worth telling or sharing. Someone is reading and absolutely loving it. I promise.
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coliepng · 5 months
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art ≠ marketing
create for the thrill of it
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ethanwylan · 2 months
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missing people who were dead before i was born.
i am surrounded by dead people. artists of all kinds. their word engulf me gently, a warm blanket in the depth of winter. i feel the inside of their minds through every delicate word sung on worn recording. i feel the familiar sting when i realize yet again that there is no more of them. that these songs, these melodies are all we have to remember them by.
a wound reopened.
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whimsy-wallfish · 4 months
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jokes on me !
text for screenreaders below cut -
dashed expectations
— 11.26.23
a frivolous expectation of mine -
ill smoke and
a poem will come to mind
the automatic flowstate 
will make me feel intelligent again,
im sure
so i smoke and
of course i dont do much -
i stare at 
the blank page 
- inept.
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elektramouthed · 1 year
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 It is obvious that abstract systems of exploitation and domination are human creations, brought into being and refined through the diversion or co-optation of creativity. The only forms of creativity that authority can deal with, or wished to deal with, are those which the spectacle can recuperate. But what people do officially is nothing compared with what they do in secret. People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed by everyone a thousand times a day: seething unsatisfied desires, daydreams in search of a foothold in reality, feelings at once confused and luminously clear, ideas and gestures presaging nameless upheavals. All this energy, of course, is relegated to anonymity and deprived of adequate means of expression, imprisoned by survival and obliged to find outlets by sacrificing its qualitative richness and conforming to the spectacle's categories. Think of Cheval's palace, the Watts Towers, Fourier's inspired system, or the pictorial universe of Douanier Rousseau. Even more to the point, consider the incredible diversity of anyone's dreams ─ landscapes the brilliance of whose colors qualitatively surpass the finest canvases of a Van Gogh. Every individual is constantly building an ideal world within themselves, even as their external motions bend to the requirements of soulless routine.
Raoul Vaneigem, from Revolution of Everyday Life (tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith)
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depizan · 7 months
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I would probably find it easier to get back to writing (and drawing, for that matter) if I spent time thinking about and talking about my characters and stories. Stories do not spring from one's forehead like Athena.
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angelnumbers · 2 years
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elizabeth gilbert, big magic
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fabledfrog · 6 months
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do you know what's beautiful?
art.
paintings of all kind, stories and fables, music, songs, poetry - just. creative art.
the way people sit and just. create such amazing thinga always bring me so much joy and i am left in awe.
i go to museums and stare at paintings and i think: someone, during what is now history, sat and made this.
i read books and i think: someone wrote these words and created this all.
i read fanfiction, i see fanart, fanvids and gifs and im just - people love it so much they create and create..
i see art on here, on different platforms and im dbsjenns. a friend sends me drafts of their work and im just. so overwhelmed by awe because this person is creating art - i look over stories for friends and i am. breathless. there is someone who is halloween-ifying pfps and i love it so much.
creators, old and new, people in history, people currently - just. people. the paintings on cave walls, the etching of names and hearts into wooden surfaces, the way ink stains school benches and how school books get covered with doodles. how people sit down. grab a pencil, colored or charcoal or a brush or Anything at all and they create!!!
people who carve wood, people who stitch, who knit, crochet - just. music! instruments! people throughout history created instruments!! at some point bards existed to sing for crowds. people write long long long stories in just poetry. poeple sing! actors!!!
i am just. so happy sometimes, when i think about how wonderfully creative people can be and how beautiful art is. just. in everything.
overwhelmed now, bye, but bsejjdkdjssksks. amazed and in love.
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morningnoodles · 4 months
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i can't find it right now but i saw a post a few moons ago that was basically like, "the biggest thing you can do to improve your art is to make whatever you're interested in right now" and listen. LISTEN.
i get it. truly i get it. before this year, i rarely draw boys. least of all older men. i was one of those kids who drew girls and fairies and princesses and just stuck with that for most of my artist journey.
and then- april 2023.
amidst one of the longest creative block i've had in my adult years, i got really into lotr and the hobbit. i constantly had (and still have!) this need to draw the characters, especially bagginshield. and so obviously i followed that need.
i mean, if your brain that's been on block for more than a year suddenly goes, "omg i want to draw them i want to draw them i want to draw them", there is no other correct response but "okay let's draw them!" and the results were absolutely horrendous. over time i do see some improvement. just looking at the art i thought good enough to post back in april and my recent ones, i can see i've improved plenty in quite a short time. i even finally worked out a process in my digital art that i feel happy with!
but to me that was never the point.
i don't think i will ever share the sketches i did on those first few weeks and months. still, i look at pages upon pages of completely messy blobby sketches with great fondness, not because of how much i improved since then but because i remember how much fun i had doing them.
so yes, make art that you love and you'll very likely see improvements. but also making what you love is reason enough to make them.
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you are not a content generator. you are not a machine. you are not responsible for others. you are you. you are a creator. you are an artist. you must make what you want to make, for yourself, in your own time. anything else is stealing from yourself to feed others tbh. and sharing art is about the act of sharing your bounty. it is about being so full you start filling others. it is about having so much beauty and abundance that you must share it. it is not about starving yourself. i promise you this
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