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I'm volunteering (yes, working for free) for a project that I thought required, or at least would benefit from my creativity and especially my editorial skills (honed over the course of many years by working for free for my insufferably-bad-novelist father), and I was recently told that my creativity and editorial skills are superfluous and not appreciated. They want me to just copy and paste stuff into a spreadsheet. For some reason this reminds me of an old Yiddish joke: A poor Jewish man wants to enter the synagogue on Yom Kippur to pray, but he can't afford the ticket price. So he tells a white lie to the doorman: He needs to bring an urgent message to a cousin who's inside. The doorman relents, and says, "Okay. Go on inside. But don't let me catch you praying!"
I know. It's a bad analogy. It's close enough for a laugh, though, right? "Just don't use your editorial skills or your creativity on this project, whatever you do."
Many readers want to be writers. I've dabbled a bit in writing fiction. I've even considered posting a short piece or two on my SS but can't find the courage. I know good writing from bad, and my own I judge to be at best mediocre, which is why I keep it to myself. Some of my stuff goes back quite a few years, and when I re-read it I'm surprised because nearly always I find myself thinking it's actually pretty good, compositionally. But not creatively. Perhaps what a left-brained writer needs is a right-brained collaborator or co-writer.
musicians - the most consummate of all thieves - often speak of a three -stage process: imitation, emulation and origination.
first you steal the other guy's riffs. then you figure out what he would have done in various situations. it all comes together when you combine the riffs and the technique you learned in stealing those riffs while listening to what the music calls for. songs are like children. they tell you what they need. you just have to listen. i suspect that is true in other artistic fields as well.
For me adrift amidst those “Visions Of Johanna” I feel the bones of electricity howling. I work for free but it doesn’t change a thing. As Dylan so perfectly writes - “money never changed a thing”.
"But what we can do is attend in a way that doesn’t inhibit creativity from emerging."
I think this is most people's problem. We are all creative, it's just a few who are much more creative than others. In the study of magic it is said creativity can very much be cultivated, and the formula is imagination, intention, and will. Creativity is work, and most people aren't willing to do the work, or they have been and are convinced they are not creative.
I am making $3.15 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning $39.55 a month by working on a laptop, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply. You too could be making this much from the comfort of your home, or while flying to London in your Learjet, or summering in the Caribbean. Boy am I gad I took notice of those spam comments on Substack! I would never have discovered the astounding financial opportunities I have without any effort, or even having to think much, or even write good. You too can learn the secrets of unlimited financial, social, political, and physical success just by clicking on the subscribe button above.
Thank you Winston again!!!
Thanks Winston,
Trained as a Landscape Architect, the 'creative process' goes along the same trajectory:
Inspiration - vision
Investigation - research
Contemplation - sketching
Implementation - presentation
Deconstruction - reVisions
Refinement - inspiration
And so on and on until client Acceptance.
Never completely satisfied is the curse of a Creative:-)
Good post. I think Steve Jobs really nails it. The creative process can be formalized in two steps --
(1) Regrouping -- "moving the brackets" in the equation to look at the same old data in a new light.
(2) Substitution -- plugging in new equivalent expressions.
Knowing exactly *how* to regroup or *what* to substitute is the tricky part. This is why AI will never be truly creative.
https://fatrabbitiron.substack.com/p/with-for-creativity
I'm volunteering (yes, working for free) for a project that I thought required, or at least would benefit from my creativity and especially my editorial skills (honed over the course of many years by working for free for my insufferably-bad-novelist father), and I was recently told that my creativity and editorial skills are superfluous and not appreciated. They want me to just copy and paste stuff into a spreadsheet. For some reason this reminds me of an old Yiddish joke: A poor Jewish man wants to enter the synagogue on Yom Kippur to pray, but he can't afford the ticket price. So he tells a white lie to the doorman: He needs to bring an urgent message to a cousin who's inside. The doorman relents, and says, "Okay. Go on inside. But don't let me catch you praying!"
I know. It's a bad analogy. It's close enough for a laugh, though, right? "Just don't use your editorial skills or your creativity on this project, whatever you do."
Many readers want to be writers. I've dabbled a bit in writing fiction. I've even considered posting a short piece or two on my SS but can't find the courage. I know good writing from bad, and my own I judge to be at best mediocre, which is why I keep it to myself. Some of my stuff goes back quite a few years, and when I re-read it I'm surprised because nearly always I find myself thinking it's actually pretty good, compositionally. But not creatively. Perhaps what a left-brained writer needs is a right-brained collaborator or co-writer.
musicians - the most consummate of all thieves - often speak of a three -stage process: imitation, emulation and origination.
first you steal the other guy's riffs. then you figure out what he would have done in various situations. it all comes together when you combine the riffs and the technique you learned in stealing those riffs while listening to what the music calls for. songs are like children. they tell you what they need. you just have to listen. i suspect that is true in other artistic fields as well.
Creativity is analogous to a natural sense of rhythm.
For me adrift amidst those “Visions Of Johanna” I feel the bones of electricity howling. I work for free but it doesn’t change a thing. As Dylan so perfectly writes - “money never changed a thing”.
"But what we can do is attend in a way that doesn’t inhibit creativity from emerging."
I think this is most people's problem. We are all creative, it's just a few who are much more creative than others. In the study of magic it is said creativity can very much be cultivated, and the formula is imagination, intention, and will. Creativity is work, and most people aren't willing to do the work, or they have been and are convinced they are not creative.
Lot's to meditate on in this piece.