Last time I promised my web audience out there in Internet Land an interesting, amusing and enlightening BLOG THEME. And I imagine (I have an active imagination) that you have all been eagerly anticipating what this theme might be. So here it is: What inspires creativity? Cueing The Muse will explore how creative people create. Where do their ideas come from? What habits, events, people and experiences get the creative juices flowing? A snippet of conversation, a song, a fleeting image from a dream? Do creative people know inspiration when they see it, or does it happen subconsciously? Is it instantaneous, or do memories play a role? What cues the muse?
Now I need to ask you a few questions. First of all, are you creative? Do you write, paint, sculpt, or build furniture? Do you design houses, birdhouses, dollhouses, or quilts? Are you a photographer, musician, gardener, actor or cook? Do you have a friend who does any of these things or something I have left out? Please let me know what you create. Because I desperately need GUEST BLOGGERS. Lots and lots of them. Creative souls who want to share what cues their muse with the folks out there in Internet Land.
I’ll get us started next time with something about my writing.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hey Cindy, I found you!
ReplyDeleteMy creative juices start with me in the horizontal position. Yep, all my stories start right before I fall asleep at night or during my daily siesta!
Unfortunately, I don't do anything creative except write.
I am a creative soul, although it took a lot of years before I could say that out loud! I also like to create with rubber stamping and paper crafts.
ReplyDeleteI have a muse that is just like Endora on Bewitched -- LOL -- and she loves to wait til I'm exhausted, laying down for a nap. Then all of a sudden she's tapping my forehead with a fake fingernail, gifting me with that plot point I had given up on!
Donna
I get my best ideas when I'm lying in bed at night or driving in my car with the windows down. Nuts, I know. Something about feeling the wind and seeing the woods and rolling hills just makes me want to create. And a moonlit night and ghosty trees. I love trees.
ReplyDeleteI can be creative in some things, like taking a necklace and making it into a ring, or using something in the house for an entirely different purpose than it was intended. Wish I was creative in cooking. I need Liz's recipes
I have two places that work for me. I get my best ideas in the shower. I don't know why, but I think it has something to do with being totally alone. Gives me a moment to actually think. My second place is the pottery wheel. There is something about being "centered" that clears my mind and lets my character roam.
ReplyDeleteI've always been creative. My husband loves it when I write because I leave remoldeling the house alone. I build, woodwork, tile, quilt, stencil, paint, decorate, but my favorite is pottery. I have a wheel in my garage and sell pieces at a local coffee shop.
My ideas come from nowhere. I think the wind whispers in my ears at night. Or else something just hits me when I'm busy doing something. It's exciting.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I don't know whence or where my ideas come from. Sometimes driving. Or on a train. Or mowing the lawn. Sitting on the beach. Or reading someone else's stuff!
ReplyDeleteI have a small pocket recorder for moments like that. But I forget it all the time, so a lot of good ideas go up in smoke.
I never get my creative ideas when I'm trying to think of them, they always come to me when I'm busy doing other things around the house, etc. Or like others, in the car, especially when I'm stuck waiting at one of the kid's practices. I always keep paper and pen handy :-)
ReplyDelete