Howard Wong wrote: I write everything that pops into the brain, but I found there many times that it never comes out the same way. I invested in a cheap digital voice recorder and it has done wonders for me--though talking to yourself in public may get you weird stares.
This may it's own topic. How to store all those juicy ideas that keeps exploding in your head. Then there's the how do you filter through it all?
I do that without the recorder, but then again I have psychiatrical issues. But you can also put it to your ear and pretend it's a cell phone.
For me the question is how not to be creative, I think. How to be good at being creative is a whole different thing.
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Howard Wong
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Re:How to be Creative?
Posted: 2008/03/17 03:52
DJ! How's it going dude?
Being good at being creative is something we all aspire towards. There's no magic bean or spell to make it happen.
It just does.
Embrace it when it comes along and see where it will take you.
I come up with a lot of ideas, but I'm never satisfied that they are great, so I sit on them. Filter them into different categories, so when/if I get hit with, say a follow up that does add to the initial idea, I can go back to it and see if I'm satisfied with it all slapped together.
I guess what I'm saying is that with all the ideas that hits me, I like to play with them like Lego. See which pieces work better in different arrangements and all. Perhaps, that's one of my creative methods?
It works for me and I like how things come out in the end. Don't know if that helps or further confuses you.
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dj keawekane
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Re:How to be Creative?
Posted: 2008/03/19 12:54
I'm good man. How's thing after After the Cape? You got anything else brewing?
I was just kidding about not being creative. That's mostly because 24 hours a day 7 days a week I'm constantly in creative mode. At work, home, wherever it is. My mind is constantly going. So the issuse for me is how to turn it off.
Sometimes though I boil down an idea too much that it loses it's potency. It doesn't feel as right as when I first had the idea.
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Re:How to be Creative?
Posted: 2008/03/20 04:08
dj keawekane wrote: I'm good man. How's thing after After the Cape? You got anything else brewing?
I was just kidding about not being creative. That's mostly because 24 hours a day 7 days a week I'm constantly in creative mode. At work, home, wherever it is. My mind is constantly going. So the issuse for me is how to turn it off.
Sometimes though I boil down an idea too much that it loses it's potency. It doesn't feel as right as when I first had the idea.
I have a short story in the Grunts trade that's hitting shops in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, I hear you about trying to turn it off. Haven't figured out how, but on the other hand, that's probably a good thing.
When I get ideas and let them sit and simmer for a bit. If they still rock afterwards then I know I have something there. If not, then I either add to the mixture or let it go.
BTW, if any of you are looking for an amazing artist DJ is your man!
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