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- Arthur Dent - 08-21-2002
So, what do you do when you feel the need to be creative?
Paint? write? sculpt? Weld something? Carpentry?
I have very little drawing skill, but I can look at a cartoon picture and copy it by eye free hand. Haven't done that in a while.
- Maynard - 08-21-2002
Usually I'll pick up an instrument and play or write music for awhile. Or I'll do some kind of computer art.
I used to write, but I haven't had any writing inspiration in awhile.
- Jack - 08-21-2002
When I am feeling creative, most of the time I will work on images for my web page, or if I'm bored and feeling creative, do an overhaul of my web page.
- Ken'sPen - 08-21-2002
I start threads on message boards.....
I like to draw a lot.....pencil or pen.
I have just enough talent to be frustrated that I don't have more,
I struggle with faces, most drawings of people look enough like them to be a relative, but I somehow usually miss the essence of the person.
- PollyannaFlower46 - 08-21-2002
I used to write all the time, but I've been drawing a blank recently... I've been doodling a lot recently.
- GonzoStyle - 08-21-2002
I write, I'm working on a short story now actually. It's about being in a concentration camp from the view of a nazi guard who is actually hiding the fact he is a jew.
I also listen to music, listening to music actually helps me write. usually either some: miles davis or ok computer and abbey road.
- Maynard - 08-21-2002
How much of that story do you have done GS? I'd like to read it when you're done.
- SYNTuesday - 08-21-2002
I work on my picture editing, or write a little computer program that does something fun or interesting... I know, loser... :-p
- Arthur Dent - 08-22-2002
I'm pretty good with a set of tools, but never had a real set of my own or a workshop. Haven't built anything since my senior year of college when I built a one person dune buggy from scratch with a couple of other guys.
- Gooch - 08-22-2002
i draw, write, post, etc. i tend to look to do more when work or life gets frantic, and i need some emotional or mental outlet to vent, play, etc. like...the song parody i did yesterday i did after i got bad news about my grandmother, who's clinging to life. sometimes, i just need to do something to kind of sort myself out, and take a break from the mundane.
i have projects for myself which i want to do: novel, screenplays, etc...but anything that isn't instant gratification or just requires a longterm committment, i seem to have constant trouble with. Conceptually, i have two novels and 2 screenplays planned out...but that is all fuckin useless unless i can put it to paper. so, creativity for me, seems to be some sort of struggle...the small and instanteous stuff of a sketch, post ditty, sig pic, etc...comes with ease and sometimes almost effortless, but the bigger things that I have my heart set on, I feel a constant battle with myself over. Sometimes, i feel that somehow i am failing myself in my inability to get past this.
Shit, is this thread a therapist couch? Obviously, i'm having a bit of an issue with this lately...nice to be able to put it to words finally. :-D
- Sean Cold - 08-22-2002
I used to like building shit. That was until I did it as a profession.
I used to write till my ex destroyed all of my old notebooks.
I used to make tons of mix cd's until said ex went and fucked those archived cd's up by scratching them.
Now, I play my PS2 and build teams, if the EX touches the PS2, she loses a fuckin finger.
- Arpikarhu - 08-22-2002
guitar
- virgingrrl - 08-22-2002
i write. everything from songs to just random thoughts. i hope to write a book someday.
i sing. perfecting songs that are really hard to sing. i want to learn how to play the geee-tar.
i knit. sweaters, blankets, scarfs...you name it i can knit it. last christmas as part of my friends presents i made them all scarfs. they loved them cause i put so much time and effort in to them, meant more then just getting a store bought gift.
- Keyser Soze - 08-22-2002
i sing, play guitar, write music, write in a journal, working on a screenplay with another writer, i take photographs, i play with photoshop.
- Spitfire - 08-22-2002
I sing and write music with my friends, though I'm thinking about taking more voice lessons, it's so much harder to sing with a guitar than a piano...
I haven't written anything in a while, usually I write free verse prose or songs. I feel really blocked lately, though there's a cheap online class you can take to clear up writer's block...someday I'll have enough patience to write a novel
- Gooch - 08-22-2002
Quote:I used to write till my ex destroyed all of my old notebooks.
that's fuckin horrible. how is this bitch still breathing???
- Sean Cold - 08-22-2002
Quote:that's fuckin horrible. how is this bitch still breathing???
Because shit splatters when you hit it.
- virgingrrl - 08-22-2002
Quote:though I'm thinking about taking more voice lessons, it's so much harder to sing with a guitar than a piano...
yes it is. just be sure to get someone that you are comfortable with, i have heard some vocal coaching horror stories. i've never had lesssons, my voice luckily enough is just there. so just look in to people thoroughly, even check with past students.
- DGW - 08-22-2002
I cook
- Sean Cold - 08-22-2002
Quote:I cook
Heating up a spoon with a lighter does not make one a chef.