Sometimes, I swear that I lack creativity. Now, this sounds incredibly weird, mainly because I'm a writer, and without creativity I might as well give up on my writing. But sometimes I just don't seem to be able to get it right.
We've all heard of Writer's Block. I, personally, am very familiar with this concept, having spent many an hour staring at a white screen and analysing that black flashing line that should be moving rapidly across the screen with my keystrokes but for some supposedly uknown reason just is not doing that. And that is usually when I wonder if it would help if I actually pressed some keys on the keyboard...perhaps that would help! But, surprisingly, it is not Writer's Block that I am suffering with at the moment (and this really is a surprise, but I think I must be one of the biggest victims of it at times!!) But no, today I am just suffering from plain plain old Creativity Block.
Some of you might already be aware that I like making my own jewellery, when I find the time and the money. I really enjoy spending time looking at pretty beads and then putting them together into a necklace. And sometime last week I attempted to make a necklace out of some purple glass beads that I'd bought, but when I'd finished it, it just did not look right. So I spent ages taking it apart, and tried mixing it up with some other glass beads that were lilacs and pinks...but this really did look awful!! The purple beads looked great, as did the lilacs and pinks, just not together. Together they looked ridiculous! The necklace looked like it should be two seperate ones, so I pulled it apart yet again and decided that the only solution would be to buy some more purple beads, of which I did yesterday, and I spent this morning on a THIRD attempt...surely this time everything would work out...NOPE, it still just didn't look right, so I pulled it again AGAIN and tried a forth attempt...no, still not right...FIFTH attempt...well, it looks nice, but I'm still not entirely happy with it, but I just don't know why!
I also bought some yellow beads, and some orange beads yesterday, both of which have gone into two necklaces of their respective colours, and god, I hate them! What is wrong with me? I mean, when I started out making necklaces I hated pretty much everything I made, but I've begun to learn what methods and styles suit me and that I like, but this week I just seem to have lost it!
My writing on the other hand is going rather nicely. I've been putting together a serialisation of a story I've actually been working on for a very long time. You can check it out here, and feel free to let me know what you think, whether good or bad, I love all kinds of feedback! As long as it is constructive of course :-)The link actually leads you to the story's prologue, so if you fancy reading the next two installments of Part One, you'll find links to them on the sidebar!
Now go read a book (or feel free to help me to find my creativity...thank you very much!!)
Kat x
