Everything Block

I want to create something beautiful, but I'm stuck behind planning things out ahead of time. I don't create out of anything but circumstance, so a plan kind of defeats the purpose. It's so frustrating to have this desire and have no base ideas. I'm happy, which is when I create, but I'm not (creating). Maybe I haven't found true happiness yet. I'm in a better mood, for certain. But perhaps I need to find the right inspiration, the right trigger. Oh, that trigger...it taunts me when I can't obtain it. I spent time just drawing what came to mind, eventually I drew the king of dicks (with a crown). You don't get to see that, I destroyed it. So much cheaper just drawing on my computer, saves on paper and I don't go through erasers when I have to erase something. If I had some sort of a deadline to get something out, I'd be able to make something. But that's work that's required, it's not just a spur of the moment flight of fancy that turns into a pipe, or a song, or anything. Do I want too much? I hardly do anything all day and I finally get myself motivated, and I draw a blank. On everything. I get so tied up in the process of making that this infuriates me. I need something. A result.

 

You should have kept the King of Dicks. We could always change Muro's avatar to it.

 

starting to think laying off the drugs wasn't such a good idea, you almost seemed more sane stoned.

 

The problem is that I don't have any focus in my life. I'm in a good place and things are going well, but I'm missing the crucial focus that items I make for class actually contain. If I know I have to get something done, I can do it well. But right now I'm missing something in my life to give me the focus to do something outside of my routine...

 

Resplendent? Giving the King a cloak of foreskin?

Completely unrelated, but congrats on becoming a mod... when the devil did that happen?

 

Well I envisaged a stately royal robe on the owner of the king of dicks. The owner is anonymous, I can't simply crown a celebrity or villain to be funny. That way, whoever actually has the king of dicks can be anybody. This is rapidly becoming an absurd conversation. But they're funny ideas.
Vorak made me a mod wednesday morning before DE logged in. I guess I'm a mod so long as I don't become pathetically mad with power (haha), because I can still see more options when I'm posting. The only thing I've done so far is mess with a HWLFP thread. The one because of you, actually.

 

Do something radical. Go to Haiti and do relief work for a week or go sleep under a bridge for a night in the inner-city. Experience something outside your circle, outside your comfort zone. Be somebody else for a day. If you're not a church-goer, go to church. Hitch-hike across the county. Jump into a random swimming pool with all your clothes on. If you're not ready to do something extreme, do something minor that you normally wouldn't do, like leaving early and taking the scenic rout to work.

 

Your biggest enemy is the force of habit.

 

His failed faked suicide is still not my fault.

 

Whatever happened to your muse who just happens to be your buddy's girlfriend? What would she want you to create?

 

Find out what you haven't tried, and try it. And don't forget the golden rule of a healthy mind in a healthy body, if drawing or writing isn't doing it for you, try artsy martial arts.

 

Ballet.

 

Or take a bicycle trip and let the sights you see and the people you meet inspire you. Or write down your dreams. Or try switching mediums, i.e. if you draw, take up writing or music.

Or writhing.

 

I hadn't thought of that...I was just using the boost she gave me to go through school.

 

Sounds like quality work.

That respite from relevance reminded me of something my good buddy experienced recently. His wife attended a seminar on how to rear children and she came away from it with a new perspective on children and creativity.

It appears that the speaker is opposed to coloring books because children are restricted by the lines therein and society's insistence to color within them.

Are coloring books stifling children's creativity?

 

If anything is stifling creativity, it's television.

 

The expert is confident it's coloring books.

 

A child is going to color inside of a coloring book any way they see fit. The lines aren't a strict set of laws, but more suggestions of where color should go. According to a child, a duck in a coloring book may be a mess of blue and black crayon, as well as an unassuming waterfowl. I think television is the main threat to creativity, not coloring books, which have been badly done by children for decades.

 

Actually, it's probably me. I'm the one that deleted HWLFP's post, making it look like TDC grave dug.

 

I left it because I figured ignoring him was the best option. Hell, it was either that or editing all of his posts to say "I'm dead."