Jan 06 2009
Creativity and the Literary Life
Source: writing.ksaw
Artists. Authors. Composers. I’ve always looked up to them. How they can mold their creativity into a masterpiece. Like composers to their notes, sculptors to their clay, so can writers be to their words — draft their thoughts, shape them, love them, relish them.
Friends and family can offer suggestions (oh, okay, critics too), and from them new perspectives and ideas take shape, but in the end, the finished product remains to be the creation of the artist, alone.
As a writer, my mind may occasionally be blocked, my pen may slip. Setbacks can be challenges as long we do not lose sight of the dream. For don’t challenges make life more interesting?
At one point in life, we may suffer from feelings, loss of a love, physical aloneness for long periods, divorce, job loss, and so on. We can always turn to our creativity. Speaking for myself as a writer, many of my written pieces and musings have been created as a result of being, of living, and from acceptance of things beyond my grasp.
We need to have faith to sustain our potentials. Our work serves as our expression of creativity. In the case of some of us, our literary life.
