It’s been almost two months since I wrote for my website. This may be because the last few things I’ve written have had some severe negative influences, especially the last article in which I talk about my history of self-harm. So I...
Category - on Creativity
This is a loaded article. ‘Why I write’ is the sort of thing that could set me off into a diatribe of such self-focused, self-congratulatory, ego-maniacal deliberation that I wake up two days later in a daze like I was drunk on...
[Photo credit: Eylem Culculoglu] We get the word from Greek Mythology. The muses were any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science. Basically they inspired and created greatness through...
Productivity, you heartless wench. Here to taunt me at my late hour, here to scold me for not worshiping at your finely suckled tit. Dear lord, it’s happening. I’m going crazy and this time it has nothing to do with the fact that...
If you think you aren’t one of these “creative” people I’m going to talk about, feel free to close the laptop and ask the person nearest to you if they would kindly slap you upside the head. Every single one of us is...
Let’s start with a description of the modern creative person… Let’s call him Bubba. Bubba is inordinately emotional and he never finds the time to work on his projects, though to his friends they are the most prominent thing...