We’re off to New Orleans this weekend to celebrate our birthdays and our wedding anniversary. Anyone have a favorite place that we just shouldn’t miss while there? I’m particularly considering a swamp tour since I’ve never done one in that area. We did in Costa Rica and I really enjoyed it.
It’s taken me years to come to terms with the fact that I am not a self-starter. I have a severe lack of innovation. Throw me at an empty canvas and I shrivel and panic. The sight of all the blank space, all that potential, overwhelms me. Anything could be there. That’s what Shakespeare faced, and look what use he made of it.
However, give me the slightest push in a direction, plant the germ of an idea in my mind, and I’m fine. If you tell me, “Write a story”, I would freeze while giving you my best patented deer-in-the-headlights look. Tell me, “Write me a story about apes”, and I’m off like a shot, researching and writing and happy.
The only time I’m ever able to be spontaneously creative is when I let it happen unexpectedly. If I let an idea bubble up from the primordial ooze of my subconscious, pretend to ignore it until it ripens a little, and then love it and pet it and hug it and squeeze it, I can come up with stuff.
It was this way when I was working on Dread House. I managed to come up with a couple of puzzles because I wasn’t trying to. At a few points I sat down and attempted to force inspiration and ended up running scared. The same with the web designs for STF Magazine, Puzzlecards, and I Am Invisible.
It’s so fulfilling to create things. I hope I’m able to train myself better to do it on command.
I am still feeling restless and out of sorts after having a the most terrible migraine I’ve ever had on Wednesday. I didn’t know if I was going to come out of it alive. If I had been able, I would have crossed the room to get the phone and call hub to come home and take me to the hospital. After about 12 hours it eased almost completely. Not a fun day. I went to see the doctor today and he’s doing some testing to see if there are underlying issues.
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Your Linguistic Profile: |
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| 30% Dixie |
| 5% Yankee |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
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I think the last two songs off “With Teeth” – Beside You in Time (for the insanely great music) and Right Where it Belongs (for the insanely great lyrics and related sound effects) could possibly be the best work to come out of Nine Inch Nails ever.
Congratulations to my sister in law who just delivered a 7 lb 6 oz baby boy! 🙂
I have an evil little grin, usually paired with an impolite cackle, and I find myself using them both fairly often.