Creativity is amusing...

To resist creativity is to prove its need.

Push back, or not. Resist, or not. 

What is your most creative way of amusing yourself? Could you do that now?

Creativity is amusing yourself at its best.

-- doug smith

Creative Writing Exercise

1. Save your most recent grocery list. It must be yours sand contain several items.
2. Write about your list, item by item. What does each item mean to you.
3. Write about what each item says about the world.
4. Close with three questions for reflection.
5. Reflect.

  -- doug smith

when you stall you fall...

There is no creative justification for not being creative.

If you wait, you're late. If you stall, you fall. Put pen to paper, put paint to canvas, put needle to fabric, put hammer to nail -- create.

"What if it's not good?"

"Of course it won't be good at first. Start, revise, let it fly..."

"Let it fly?"

"Yep."

There is no excuse you should buy, no reason you should accept, no rejection you should take too seriously. There is no creative or non-creative justification for not being creative. You already are.

Get busy.

-- doug smith

Don't Wait

Don't wait for creativity -- create something and spark your own creativity.

-- doug smith

 

Not the same

 

"Madness likes to call itself creative, but that doesn't mean that it is."

-- doug smith

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY:

1. Draw a picture. Keep drawing until you fill the page, no matter what develops.

2. Say something about it in one sentence.

Writing Prompt: Alphabet Soup (Collage)

 

Writing prompt: write a story using alphabet soup.

Alphabet Soup Story - collage by douglas brent smith

Spontaneous Drawing

Do you still doodle?

You can probably remember a time in your life when you doodled a lot. Sometimes we draw less as we get older. It happens, but it doesn't HAVE to happen. We can keep drawing. We can keep sketching. And, when we do it fuels our creativity.

Try bringing that same spirit of improvisation to some random, spontaneous drawing. it doesn't have to be good (although it might be!) -- it just has to flow.

This is sa drawing I made in 1976. I'm fairly certain, although that was a long time ago, that I drew it in one sitting, without doing anything else. 

Remember, it doesn't need to be great art to help your creativity. 

-- doug smith