So this morning after the alarm went off at 7:30 I spent an incredibly productive hour and a half lying in bed in that state between sleeping and waking letting my dissertation ideas churn in my head for awhile before I got up to get back to the reading.
All this is a strong counterpoint to my life with my readings before said breakthrough.
The point of all of this is that I've been realizing lately how much I both love and hate the creative process. I sometimes think if it and I were ever thrown on the Jerry Springer show together, it would make for some dramatic television.
I hate:
- How much my emotions are affected during that time before breakthroughs when I believe it will never come together again
- How little control I have about when those breakthroughs come, even if one subscribes to the "keep working at it until the inspiration shows up" philosophy
- The part after the breakthroughs come and everything starts to come together
- How mysterious the process is and that feeling that the creative breakthroughs are a gift, even if I'm involved in them
- Be more confident during the pre-breakthrough times of chaos and self-doubt
- Learn to balance the "keep working at it until the inspiration shows up" philosophy with appreciating the mystery and learning when to let a project rest for a time
2 comments:
Welcome, fellow media ecologist!
I was a student in Neil Postman's NYU doctoral program in Media Ecology. You might find some of my research on television advertising useful in your studies of storytelling. My own blog, "A Model Media Ecologist" can be found at http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com. An example of my doctoral research can be found at http://savagemindmadave.blogspot.com. With your permission, I'd like to add your blog to my "Media Ecology Links."
Regards,
Bob
Hi Robert,
Welcome to the blog! Feel free to add my blog to your list of links, though the focus of the blog is less media ecology, more on the writing life. But thanks.
Deborah
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