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Often I want to spend time being creative, but I have other stuff to take care of, and then I don't get to do anything creative. This ties back into my need to read that book Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play, which has been on my list since I started keeping it in July. When I got home this evening, I had to feed the cat and empty the dishwasher and make dinner for myself. While eating dinner I was browsing through my friends' recently-posted photos on Flickr. Now I'm trying to get a journal entry written before midnight. Then I have some email I really need to respond to, and dishes to wash, and it'll pretty much be bedtime. I did some editing work today, and have more to do tomorrow, which will probably take up the bulk of the day. I still have other important tasks on the list to take care of, and need to fit some of that in over the next few days. I should make a little more time for creativity too.
Sometimes I wish I were more creative. This journal writing is creative non-fiction, although I feel that there have been more filler posts than I want. Blogging for KEXP is also creative writing. And even the D&D character class conversion I'm doing for Dungeon World / Apocalypse D&D is a little creative. But aside from the currently regular journal writing, it's actually fairly uncommon for me to do creative writing, and I don't do other creative arts.
I know part of this desire to be "more creative" comes from great admiration, and a little envy, of the artistic talents of some of my friends, Tony and John in particular. I see the really cool drawings, pictures, or designs they come up with, and I wish that I could do something like that too. I've never thought much of my own drawing skills and I'm too quickly frustrated with them and too little satisfied by my efforts to have much interest in practicing until I do develop some confidence in my skills. Actually, thinking about that though, I have liked some of the maps I've made for games, and I did used to really enjoy creating new maps just as a relaxing fun activity. Maybe I just need to do some map sketching again, for myself.
One thing I do need to do is start writing these posts a little earlier! I'm always writing right up to the last second, and too often finding myself posting the entry while it's still unfinished, just so it goes up on the scheduled calendar day, and then finishing it by editing the post afterward—which in fact I'm doing right now. Another thing I need to do, which I'm reminding myself yet again, is to do this sort of rambling more often—pick a topic and just go for 20 or 30 minutes, and then be done. That was a required daily activity in my high school economics class, actually, and it's a good exercise. And as I'm now writing past midnight, it's time to call this entry done.
Sometimes I wish I were more creative. This journal writing is creative non-fiction, although I feel that there have been more filler posts than I want. Blogging for KEXP is also creative writing. And even the D&D character class conversion I'm doing for Dungeon World / Apocalypse D&D is a little creative. But aside from the currently regular journal writing, it's actually fairly uncommon for me to do creative writing, and I don't do other creative arts.
I know part of this desire to be "more creative" comes from great admiration, and a little envy, of the artistic talents of some of my friends, Tony and John in particular. I see the really cool drawings, pictures, or designs they come up with, and I wish that I could do something like that too. I've never thought much of my own drawing skills and I'm too quickly frustrated with them and too little satisfied by my efforts to have much interest in practicing until I do develop some confidence in my skills. Actually, thinking about that though, I have liked some of the maps I've made for games, and I did used to really enjoy creating new maps just as a relaxing fun activity. Maybe I just need to do some map sketching again, for myself.
One thing I do need to do is start writing these posts a little earlier! I'm always writing right up to the last second, and too often finding myself posting the entry while it's still unfinished, just so it goes up on the scheduled calendar day, and then finishing it by editing the post afterward—which in fact I'm doing right now. Another thing I need to do, which I'm reminding myself yet again, is to do this sort of rambling more often—pick a topic and just go for 20 or 30 minutes, and then be done. That was a required daily activity in my high school economics class, actually, and it's a good exercise. And as I'm now writing past midnight, it's time to call this entry done.
