I have never been more thankful that we don't have TV (we do have A tv, but not TV, get it?) than I am at this current stage in my life. I am so easily distracted by the computer, much less the ever babbling world of modern media. If I had a conduit to that flow, I would slip into a stupor of inaction that I know I would never recover from. Sometimes I miss not knowing the pop-culture answers at pub trivia (we woulda won the other week if we only watched TV). But on the whole, I feel less anxiety... I can breathe more, better, find time to do things... or at least have one less major excuse for not doing things that I want to do.
I'm working on myself recently. Working on figuring out what my hangups are with just getting my creative projects done. It's not as if I don't have time. But something keeps holding me back from allowing myself to play and in the process be successful and creative. I think I'm getting closer to the source. The monsters have been rumbling more and I haven't been able to sleep very well. Weird dreams about werewolves and Neil Gaiman and Harry Potter...
So I have to check in with myself and ... just ... breathe ...
How do you tap into the flow of your creativity? Any hangups you would like to share?
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TV might be the thing I'd miss the least. Too many commercials. But then I have Netflix on the computer. Better than TV. :)
ReplyDeleteI like to write in the mornings. Some morning I like to lay still for awhile. Things just sweep into my brain, and it inspires the rest of the day--how to fix current work, new stories, etc...
I listen to music and watch fast-paced, epic movies. I also read the kind of stories I would hope to write. Sometimes I look at beautiful paintings.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of television, I pretty much watch CNN and Family Guy to the exclusion of everything else. I do like movies, though.
Free Cell. But it also helps to clear my head, so . . . I dunno! I just make sure I do a page a day. I usually do more than that, but even if that's all I get done, I don't get hung up on feeling bad about myself for slacking. Sometimes I think I get more hung up on the fact that I'm hung up, if that makes sense?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are figuring it out! Keep it up :)
I have TV to watch movies but we don't get any channels and I can't imagine now, being channel free I think for almost 6 years, how I ever managed to find time with TV around. Then again, there weren't so many distractions on the internet back then, too.
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew how to turn on my creative side. It just comes when it wants. With brute force I can activate it - forcing out 2 or 3k of writing and then it starts to flow naturally. But I like it better when the good stuff comes on its own.