#on creativity

[metamorphesque]

On Not Wanting To Live, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

[includedisco]

Even if redundancies are generally frowned upon in writing, forgive yourself for using the same words; writing similar lines and dialogue; and for having slightly similar scenes and incidences across your fanfics.

You're the same human being with only one mind and you're bound to narrate things in a similar way . There's only so much life experience you can have for inspiration, and so much research and learning you can do to expand your vocabulary and improve grammar.

[racketghost]

i think there is a lot of pressure put on things to be organized or to have a method of how to do things. and i agree organization is wonderful and i like things tidy. but i have come to realize as i get older that i simply CANNOT be organized when it comes to doing things.

for example, if i set aside time to write or read or make art i simply will not. i will instead stress-sweat my way through those icebergs of time until they melt and i can once again do something else.

instead, my method HAS to be chaotic. it cannot be formal. it has to be me randomly sitting down and happily realizing there is 15% battery on my computer— enough to write a frantic four paragraphs. i have to read six chapters of a book standing upright in my kitchen, eating messy unstirred peanut butter spilled onto ritz crackers or else i will not read at all. i have to start an oil painting by grabbing the worst piece of a graphite you’ve seen in your life and scribbling something unpolished into the center of a canvas.

it’s like as soon as my brain realizes that something is formal or set aside for a distinct purpose that it instead must remain untouched lest i be found inadequate by my own yardstick. this is a baffling system for me; and one that i never really see represented or talked about.

i’m trying hard to not measure things like this as good or bad, but to just let them breathe and be as they are. anyway. i salute you, fellow chaotic creatives. long may we find unprepared nooks of time to dwell in ♥️

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. the page, my sanctuary

[art-appreciation-dog]

I don't care if it's not like you envisioned it or if someone's done it already, they need YOUR take. They need more of YOU out there, the world. They need YOUR words and YOUR style and YOUR strokes and YOUR specific touch. Nobody can create it like you can. The world needs more of you.

[cookiecrumbconundrum]

a (tumultuous) new year

been having a lot of emotions about the new year and everything going on in the world and the idea that i am stuck (i am literally 23 but my brain is like you're practically in the grave) and my personal life. you have to remind yourself that it is never too late to start. a new year can start any day.

diario, rosa chacel | @/christmas-winter | “cutting broccoli”, tishani doshi | i saw the tv glow, dir. jane schoenbrun | “the child formerly known as ________”, cameron awkward-rich | lights, boris zadvytsky | diary of anaïs nin | precious adams as “first sylph”, photo. marilyn kingwill | “equinox”, audre lorde

[noosphe-re]

The enfolded order is a vast range of potentiality, which can be unfolded. The way it is unfolded depends on many factors. The way we think and so on is among those factors. The implicate order implies mutual participation of everything with everything. Nothing is complete in itself, and its full being is realized only in that participation. The implicate order provides an image of how this participation might take place in physics in various ways.

David Bohm, On Creativity