Monday, September 20, 2010
Best of the Week: Creativity
During this week I read an article in class "The Sea of Information," by Andrea Barrett. This article gave me new insight on what creativity is, and what it means to be creative. The author of this article related her creativity to her writing, whereas I am very creative when it comes to music. Even thought there was a slight difference between the two disciplines I was still able to relate to the article and gather ideas from it. One idea I gathered, was the ability to follow a spark of interest and make something whole out of it. The author emphasizes how she "learned to follow were the spark of interest leads me" (Barrett 11). There are many times were I have an idea or a phrase in my head but I don't know what to do with it. In the future though, I am going to make an effort to carry a notepad with me where I can write my thoughts down, so I can make something whole out of them. This article also brought to my attention where creativity comes from. What I got out of this article was that creativity is based on other peoples ideas and things around you. There are many other things that come into play when trying to make a piece "original" but for the most part, it is based on other examples around you. This theory has never occurred to me before until after reading this article. In all, this article inspired me to pay more attention to my creative side and to think more out of box about life. For the most part I was very narrow minded and didn't give myself many options to be creative and inspired but now, I am going to open my mind to the creative side of life and make an effort to see more arrows on FEDEX trucks.
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Maybe you could try thinking of writing as music? I like to work on the cadence to my sentences when I write, and I try to make it sound as natural, but interesting, as I can. I view my writing as something that will be written out loud, or at least something that will sound like it is being said to my reader. I think it's helped my style out a lot.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about how this article gets you to think more of where creativity comes from. I also had the same sort of realization on how right she was about our original work. It may be unique but it comes from things that we see all around us. That thought never occurred to me until I read this article. It's so interesting to think about creativity that way. I like what you said about the Fed Ex trucks, a lot of people don't realize that the arrow's there. There's a difference between catching that for yourself or having someone tell you it's there.
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