Monday, 2 September 2013

Habit of creativity

Writing has to become a habit, a habit of getting down to it everyday or at least almost every single day. Even if it is on three of four different stories or articles or ideas; a habit of writing needs to be created. I know that sometimes getting out of bed can be a chore, or sitting in front of that blank, flashing screen where that small black area marker blinks and blinks at you like some kind of seedy guy looking for a good time in a city's red light district. Or that blank white page that glares at you with ill-formed malice, the page lines burning themselves into the back of your brain like some malignant force. But if the habit is created then the act of writing comes easier, or the act of drawing, painting, creating Photoshop art, we need to cultivate a habit of creativity even if just for ourselves and that small part of sanity that remains after a day of tax returns and bad radio music and memo after memo after memo.

So create the habit of creativity.