Creativity...
Aug. 8th, 2001 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleetfootmikeI have a theory that creativity is finite.
Scary, huh. Not finite in the 'once you've used up all your creativity, that's it' sense. More like rationed than finite. You get so much a day, and it's up to you what you do with it.
Why do I think this? Well. Between 1986 or so and 1994 I recorded and released three albums, two of my own and one with a band, and wrote something like 30 original songs. Since 1994, I think I've written 2.
The difference? In 1994, I discovered MUSHes and online roleplay. Modesty aside, I am a pretty decent roleplayer, and it was fun, and a great outlet for my creativity. But... creativity seems to be finite. MUSHing meant no songs, or precious few. The obvious answer is that MUSHing's a time sink, and perhaps that's part of it. But even making time for songwriting, I found I had nothing to draw on.
So I gave up: Dec 31 2000, the end of the Pedants' Millennium. And yeah, sure, I miss it, a heck of a lot. But I have one new song, and two more on the go...
Scary, huh. Not finite in the 'once you've used up all your creativity, that's it' sense. More like rationed than finite. You get so much a day, and it's up to you what you do with it.
Why do I think this? Well. Between 1986 or so and 1994 I recorded and released three albums, two of my own and one with a band, and wrote something like 30 original songs. Since 1994, I think I've written 2.
The difference? In 1994, I discovered MUSHes and online roleplay. Modesty aside, I am a pretty decent roleplayer, and it was fun, and a great outlet for my creativity. But... creativity seems to be finite. MUSHing meant no songs, or precious few. The obvious answer is that MUSHing's a time sink, and perhaps that's part of it. But even making time for songwriting, I found I had nothing to draw on.
So I gave up: Dec 31 2000, the end of the Pedants' Millennium. And yeah, sure, I miss it, a heck of a lot. But I have one new song, and two more on the go...
