Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Creativity

I struggle with what I hope is my creativity. It's poorly defined. It seems to hide underneath a lot of boring reality type things and only peak it's head out every so often.

This frustrates J. He'd like to see more of my creative side. I mean, it's got to more entertaining than, just, life, right?

Sonny and Danny are obviously both very creative. Hmmm.

I see creativity in my work - in finding the stories behind the numbers, in devising the best way to get customers to respond and with the sort of information we'd like to know, in coming up with recommended courses of action based on the findings. That's not really the type of creativity that goes much further than your job or industry. Who in the great wide blogosphere really cares about the impact of the rapor I have with my online research community when it comes to asking questions and interpreting results? Or what my company can do based on that?

Blogger has just put up info on NaNoBlogMo - National Novel Blogging Month - their version of National Novel Writing Month. Checking out the site, many people have already started. I wouldn't even know where to begin. Maybe I'll try a mini-version of NaNoBlogMo. Instead of creating a separate blog, I'll put stuff here. Instaed of trying to crank out a novel in 30 days, I'll try some short exercises, see if it takes me somewhere.

Since the stuff isn't gushing out of me, I figure I have to force myself to do it in some fashion. Then, if I turn out to be horrible or to hate it, I can return to normal-dom.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

People are all different, born with their own talents. Some are awesome artists, some are fantastic drummers, and some are academically gifted intellectual geniuses. The real key is liking yourself and not always trying to please everyone else.

Anonymous said...

People are all different, born with their own talents. Some are awesome artists, some are fantastic drummers, and some are academically gifted intellectual geniuses. The real key is liking yourself and not always trying to please everyone else.