when you feel as tho you lost your creative touch to your thoughts and writings. its not something i thought i'd lose as i got older. i know we all get these stumps in the roads that lead us atray from our creativity it's just when i have something to say and i dont know how to express in the right way,its frustrating to me.
Ever try painting your thoughts or feelings in words and pictures? I do that sometimes with poetry... combining it all.
thats where i am right now... i have so much drive.. but no inspiration. It's jsut building up inside of me!
It's kind of strange how negativity is so easily expressed, but that just might be me. I think it's like that with most people though. Positive thoughts are difficult to project creatively, for me. Sometimes it isn't that way, but I think I cranked out six or seven poems in one night, the other night ago. I used to write somewhere around ten a day. I used to keep a Xanga and posted one or two random ones here or there, on the weblog. I took a hiatus and came back to it this week... If anyone wishes to see or has one... mine is http://www.xanga.com/orsino2
An author friend of mine (look him up at Jupitalia.com) has the motto that says "the interruptions ARE the journey". I believe it's not a bad saying and can relate to many things. Your 'expressive block' is perhaps a chance to review what you've already written and the things that made you write them! These 'interruptions' are the stick and rudder of our lives that allow for corrections or an entirely different change of course to our normal, tried and true world. I've been where you're at many, many times. I use to dread it, but for quite some time I see it as the time to do something else and, man, I've done some fun things because I did. I hope you submit your writings and thoughts to periodicals, magazines, newspapers and the such. Believe it or not, what you wrote for this thread was well written to express yourself. Seems that's you nitch in life, and there's a lot to write about. I encourage you to travel as much as you can. Long trips, short trips, day trips, around the block trips. A life needs challenges and difference to fill the creative hole. Creativeness won't come to you, you must go to it. Recharge, rethink, review, redo, rediscover, repeat. Ciao!
thank you for that. it's nice to recieve a stimulating post like this. something that i might be able to reflect on; something encouraging. from time to time i get these thoughts that i do write down and try to share with others but the response i get is either laughter or a blank stare with an occasional comment "you're odd". It's not that im odd, but is it really odd to others that someone might think out loud the very thoughts that some of us have thought inwardly? alot of times my thoughts to others have been labeled as "stupid" but i couldnt see where it would be as such. i believe an average person wastes their time just accepting things and not giving it a second thought. not questioning not pondering. so when someone does question or think or whatever comes around, those that arent used to it automatically think you're odd. i dunno, i dont know the word for that.
"i believe an average person wastes their time just accepting things and not giving it a second thought" I believe a person wastes their time thinking about what is average.YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY WEIRD PEOPLE ARE NOT EVEN AVERAGE WEIRD...........lol. Thanx for the poetry link Orsino, check it out later....... rhasta gave some of his music links this morn and I'm downloading some songs now from rhasta.penguin http://media.putfile.com/Hidden-Jam (I play bass on this...it was a track that we didnt know they recorded, but it came out pretty cool) http://media.putfile.com/Groovin (i play electric guitar on this one) http://www.myspace.com/paulkortemusic
right now I have very little drive to do much more than lay and sit..(recovering from a disability)..........I'm not so much as inspired as motivated to share my music and art with the few others here on hip forums I see sharing theirs.......
right now I have very little drive to do much more than lay and sit..(recovering from a disability)..........I'm not so much as inspired as motivated to share my music and art with the few others here on hip forums I see sharing theirs.......and others here locally who do art and can relate. For some strange reason I feel like it is an insult when someone who doesn't do, or never has done any art, gives me a compliment. I don't consider them buying it a compliment either. I tried to chill my tood by thinking life is an art, stuff like sweeping the floor can be an art form.....dats bullshit. So I dunno what I'm gonna do bout my bad ass "Imma artist" attitude(tood).................
I wouldn't place too much importance on whether or not people understand or approve of things you write, say or think. In the big picture of things, each of us is just one of billions of people on this planet at this time. That's a lot of people thinking, writing, and speaking about, well, pretty much everything humans are capable to doing. And each of us is also seeking our own individuality and identity through these expressive mediums. That leaves a lot of room for similar concepts, and for new expressions. Most people don't have the inclination, nor the patience to give any attention to so much of what's out there, and (bugger of it all) that includes your contributions. We tend to be selective about what we allow in to our sphere of relevance and influence. We can only hope that we meet enough people in life that we can relate to on some level. I do have a warning, tho! You sound like a pretty indepth and thoughtful person. Wonderful stuff are thoughts. However, many young people get into the debilitating habit of wrapping themselves up in philosophical and overly analytical personalities and forget that they have lives to live in the real world, too, and that participating in life is more fun than rationalizing it. I only say that here on the off chance that your 'expressive block' may interfere with your physical activities in life. I hope not. Our mental side is meant to balance out our physical side. So, if you're not doing anything at the moment in the mental department, let that other part of you have a bit more free reign. Think of what you'll create that way!!!!
Dear Syra, I remember thinking when I first started writing that it was just a shame that I only wrote when I was down...but then, this summer I discovered Diane Wakoski and I remember a poem called "With Words" that explained it all. Here's the part of it that really hit me: "For the poet, the poem is not the measure of his love. It is the measure of all he's lost, or never seen, or what has no life unless he gives it life with words." I hope that helps. You'll get through it, I promise. One night, you'll be sittin' there, and all of a sudden you'll be in dire need of paper and it'll just flow out of you like water. Love, Krystin
