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Commentary on creativityMusings from adventures in making-stuff-up, in story form.
Being a creative person I am stuck in this endless loop of imagining 'things' into existence, and then judging these 'things' inferior and sending them into the depths of oblivion (a.k.a work-in-progress). I've come to realise over the years that this is all part of the creative process, and that the lesson is repeated until the lesson is learned. These stories are my reminders to myself of the lessons learned. Mostly in a bitter-sweet, cynical kinda way. Sometimes they are spiced with a dash of humour, but I have not met a lesson yet, that wasn't painful.
Five steps of excellent advice about writing from a successful never-was writer to a nobody-buddy about how to overcome the bumps in the road to creative satisfaction, and avoid becoming a bitter cynic.
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As a creative person, sometimes you get into a funk called procrastination. It's like a venom that saps your very will to create. Well, I have the antidote in the form a real-life (fictional) story, that really happened to a friend of mine (not really).
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As a creative person, you have taste - it's not always good taste - but it's there, and it drives to you to explore interesting ways of expressing yourself. This is a tale of how I forgot I had taste, and to remind myself that even if it's in bad taste, sometimes I just have to trust my gut.
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Did you ever have a story just pop into your head?
Well me too! So I became one half a story-telling band, Renegades of Co.Za. And we love story creating stories so much we made a website for it: wemadethisup.com. Join us as we navigate the peaks and valleys of our imagination on a quest to invent new stories to entertain you.
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