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<\/b>, overwhelms me. Anything could be there. That’s what Shakespeare faced, and look what use he made of it. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It was this way when I was working on Dread House<\/a>. 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<\/a>, Puzzlecards<\/a>, and I Am Invisible<\/a>. <\/p>\n It’s so fulfilling to create things. I hope I’m able to train myself better to do it on command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}