If you know me well, you'd know a person I hold in high regard is Sir Ken Robinson. The guy who thinks schools kill creativity. And I agree with him to the extent that I wish I came up with his ideas first.
Today I thought I'd talk about other areas of creativity that people wouldn't generally associate as being creative. The obvious one being writing.
Since sparking my interest in reading books again, I have also had a kindling to write. Hence this blog, while it started out as a form of easy to access journalism for my own benefit. I started to see the benefit of reading other peoples blogs and decided I wanted to share my thoughts rather than just keep them to myself.
As such, I have grown to appreciate writing as a creative outlet to myself, being a creative person. To promote further writing. I stumbled upon this blog with a brilliant idea. Write something, anything, in 60 seconds.
I have been writing my one minute brain farts on there for maybe just on a month, and have recently won an award for an idea I came up with under the guidelines of the topic of the day.
Here's what it looks like.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Today's Writing Prompt: Prescription
The pharmaceutical companies come up with such creative names for new medications. Dream up a new medication--its purpose (as realistic or outlandish as you want it to be) and its name.
One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Pipsqeek
Re-Lax.
The chill pill and constipation fixer-upperer.
Congratulations, pipsqeek! You may have a million-dollar idea there.... Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog!
I had in fact forgotten about the entry I submitted. Having been so busy setting up the music school, I have put a lot of things aside recently in order to get this business up and running so I can pay the rent for the place I've leased out.
It's funny, being an IT guy... or should I say, former IT guy.... People assumed I know it all about technology, but the whole concept of online marketing and networking with people is vague to me. Though I am learning. Yesterday I set up a Facebook page for Revolution Guitars, and instead... or more specifically, I got a personal page too.
Now I'm going to have ex-school mates contacting me and asking to meet up, even though we either never will, or it'll happen once. Or better still, existing mates who've all been talking about Facebook will now be able to include me in their conversation and jokes. To which I'll probably still not understand because I don't plan on being social on that particular time waster of a social network.
Now that I've gone waaaay off topic, I forget what I wanted to really talk about.... ah yes, writing. I think everyone should write. Even if you're not a writer. I think a diary is a healthy thing to have. If you're too manly to have a diary, you can have a journal. :)
Even if you're not creative. I've looked back at things I've written on a piece of paper in school that I found when moving house and thinking "Wow, how naive." But at some point you look at the note and wish you were back there.
I'll burst that bubble easy. All I have to do is think about the rest of my school life and it's easy for me to balk at the idea of wishing I was back there.
This entire journal entry is creativity itself. I'm putting a recollection of ideas, experiences and thoughts into a palletable order. I'm not a professional, but I try and write how I speak, rather than put on words that I never use in real life.
If you enjoy writing and can spare a minute, then maybe you should head over to http://oneminutewriter.blogspot.com and starting replying to topics that interest you.
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