sutistoy
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Help, in the midst of a creative quagmire
I really need some help here. This term, all I have is a writing course. No big deal... I have written essays forever, usually more expansive ones than the teachers expect. Because of the realative familiarity I already have with writing, I find myself having to spend a bit less time involved in classwork than usual. Good, right? Plenty of time for creative endevours, right? I wish. Lately, I find myself sitting here on my days off, finishing the assignments needed and then just doing the dumb wondering of what to do next. Usually I wind up still sitting here, unresolved. Ever see the Jungle Book, where the vultures keep asking each other what they want to do? It is just like that in my head. I can't make up my mind, and before I know it the day is over and I have to attend to more domestic tasks and I am mad at myself. Not to mention, I find myself eating too much when I am not physically engaged in something worthwhile. I'm working on an essay this week on types of over-eaters, and I fit more than one bill on the list.. eating while distracted, eating out of depression, eating more then necessary, etc etc. Anyone have any ideas as to how to break out of this box? It really needs to come to a stop. I'm even sitting here contemplating the Easter candy, half of which I don't even like. I wondering what the hell is w rong with me.
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4/15/2009, 2:10 pm
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Re: Help, in the midst of a creative quagmire
Have a routine exercise to practice like sketching or some similar project to polish your skills. Or find a book with projects/suggested exercises and work your way through them. Your skills will improve, you may try new techniques, and it often inspires.
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4/15/2009, 7:42 pm
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Re: Help, in the midst of a creative quagmire
You know what? I do that too.
It's like if I'm really busy with stuff I don't want to do, and I have a little bit of time, I just sit, being bored, because I know that if I start doing something I like, time will pass to qickly, and I'll have to get back to doing the stuff I don't want to do.
But if I just sit being bored, time goes slower.
It's a weird thing...
C.S. Lewis once wrote: "Most people spend their entire lives doing neither what they want to do, nor what they should do."
Kindda makes you wonder what people are doing with their lives...
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5/29/2009, 9:18 am
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Re: Help, in the midst of a creative quagmire
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de Corbin wrote:
C.S. Lewis once wrote: "Most people spend their entire lives doing neither what they want to do, nor what they should do."
Kindda makes you wonder what people are doing with their lives...
You know, that's kinda sad. I know there are things that I want and should be doing. But at least the things I AM doing are also on that list...I just don't have enough of me to do it all!
I have bid "artists block" for awhile now. I know just what you mean about not knowing what to do next...yuck...
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Re: Help, in the midst of a creative quagmire
This is a time, for me anyway, when I try something new and different creatively. When I look at clay and think, ugh, I have no desire to even make one thing today, or a custom order is hanging over my head, and I procrastinate until the last minute to make it. Time for something new. Lately I have tried painting, and jewelry. I have tried mural work, faux finishing walls, landscape design. I will always go back to clay.I even stopped sculpting for almost 5 years and went back to it because I missed it.
I too can wallow with the best of them. I sit and watch tv or movies for hours. I will quit working and read a book, and eat until I feel sick. bad habits which I am still trying to break. Finding something new, spiritually can help too. Right now i am teaching myself the tarot, because I have always wanted to learn, but never taken the time.
Stop, breathe, view the beauty in the world around you. Take a walk in the woods, or watch a butterfly. Go bird watching, feel peace. Go with what inspires you.
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