Just home from a NaNoWri end of month dinner and something is niggling the back of my mind…does creativity live alone?
Through a couple of conversations the idea of writing with others vs writing alone crept up. Some easily write alone in our caves, while others do better with face-to-face occasional contact. I’m a cave dweller with multi-contacts via online. I don’t feel alone, but I’ve recognized the difference of “live” conversations and interactions. There is a different energy.
But, still I’m wondering if creativity truly lives alone. It is our imagination, our outlet, but don’t we all feel the need to share. The excitement of talking about our creations. Or do some of us prefer to keep it private. Our own secret escape.
I am a cave dweller, but I’m looking forward to our next write in. My creativity may live alone, but I don’t think I can.
I write alone. And for a long time I let it live alone, keeping it all to myself. Recently I've been actively seeking publication and I've had to let the creativity out of its hiding place – sharing is a hard thing for me to do.
Now that people know I write, I find myself bubbling to talk about it. What I'm writing now, what I plan to write next, what I just finished, you name it.
So, for me, creativity lived alone, but moved out and now dwells outside the four walls of my office space.
But I still write alone.
Michelle
Author of Concilium, available July 2012
Concilium: The Departure, November 2012
http://www.Michelle-Pickett.com
http://www.Conciliumbooks.com
Well, we are glad your creativity has moved in our direction.
Important point…we really do all write alone. No matter how much we share and brainstorm with others, the writing process is very much an individual time.
I can talk about all my writer friends, but about my work…you know that phrase "like pulling eye teeth"? Yup, I clam up about my own.
Keep writing