Peaking into the creative mind.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
Cecil Vortex features a handful of a interviews with artists on their creative process. Well worth checking out if you’re as fascainated with the creative process as I am.
A few highlights:
The other part is to be ready when they are. Which is to say, a notebook and a writing implement are your passport…But it’s also important to have [these tools] beside your bed so no dream gets lost. - Bob Halman
If you’re sitting down to write a poem, the first thing to do is to forget that you’re sitting down to write a poem. And not to censor yourself in any form when you’re writing. Later on you can censor yourself all you want. It’s called editing, and it’s necessary to take that poem from this originating explosion into the crafted art that’s going to allow it to live alone. - Bob HalmanJoe Strummer said that — you have to have input to have output.
I also came across a book by Annie Lamott called Bird by Bird that should be on my doorstep in a few days thanks to Amazon. The book is a manual on writing and life and one you may want to add to your library if you don’t already have it.
She has a story I love:
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. (It) was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, “Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
Further Reading:
One Response to “Peaking into the creative mind.”
-
Cecil Vortex Says:
May 27th, 2007 at 2:25 pmThanks a lot for the link — glad you’ve been enjoying the interviews. Also, Bird by Bird is fantastic. I’m sure you’ll love it. Besides the great advice, it’s just wonderful writing.
-Cecil
