The Creative Spark
(Part 1 of a 3 Part Series on the Creative Process…)
Hello, Noizemakers everywhere. I have just written a long and loose blog fantasia on the creative process and what it means to me. I will split these musings up into three separate blog entries, starting… now!
You never know when the creative fires will start burning. You often don’t know why they burn. The one thing I do know is this: When they burn, you should fan the flames and ride them. Few feelings are worse than the realization that you had a great creative idea, a great creative spark, but you were too busy to act on that spark, and it faded until you could hardly remember what the idea was.
I haven’t felt that feeling in a long time, because when the creative fires start burning, I stop what I’m doing and go realize the creative idea in a draft sketch. Technology has made this easier — even if I’m out supposedly doing something else, I can still step away for a few minutes and sing a new song idea into my cell phone. Having the ability and opportunity to create musical and literary things is a great gift. I don’t mean it’s some great gift to the world, I mean it’s a great gift the world gives to me. It is almost always inspired by the world around me somehow.
There really is nothing like the thrill of creating new works of art that you really care about, that you really personally love. Having a means to encapsulate your thoughts and feelings within a creation you can then sit back and personally enjoy experiencing — in a way that, as the creator who’s become the listener, nobody else will ever quite experience — is a real rush of pure joy. You lose track of everything else except what you’re doing, you lose track of time, you think about nothing else, it gives you moments of pure bliss, focus and passion.
There are only a few other things that make me feel that way. One of them is playing soccer, a passion of mine since my childhood and probably my second most accomplished ability after creating music, and the other is — oh sorry, this is a children’s music blog.
(Continued next week…)
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