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Creative tides
Mar. 11th, 2012 11:36 amLast night I wrote my third song in a week.
Ordinarily I am not this productive. I think it has something to do with March 6th having been, so to speak, some kind of major astrological conjunction of books. _Discount Armageddon_, _Fair Game_ and _Crucible of Gold_, Naomi Novik's latest, all came out at once, and furthermore it looks like Robin Hobb's next Dragon Haven book is out also.
I am about 90% through _Crucible of Gold_ and enjoying it muchly and I don't know if DA and FG set me up for some kind of habit or what, but I now have a song about CoG.
Except it's kind of spoilery (not badly so, but it's about a societal attitude that comes as something of a surprise and has a bearing on the plot) and I'm not sure what to do with it; the book's been out for only five days, and I don't want to spoil it for everyone who hasn't got to it yet.
Anyway that got me thinking. I've had times in my life when I wrote two songs a week most weeks and other times when I wrote maybe four songs a year. Do you have similar variations? Does pouring creativity into one aspect of your life seem to make you more, or less, creative in other aspects?
Ordinarily I am not this productive. I think it has something to do with March 6th having been, so to speak, some kind of major astrological conjunction of books. _Discount Armageddon_, _Fair Game_ and _Crucible of Gold_, Naomi Novik's latest, all came out at once, and furthermore it looks like Robin Hobb's next Dragon Haven book is out also.
I am about 90% through _Crucible of Gold_ and enjoying it muchly and I don't know if DA and FG set me up for some kind of habit or what, but I now have a song about CoG.
Except it's kind of spoilery (not badly so, but it's about a societal attitude that comes as something of a surprise and has a bearing on the plot) and I'm not sure what to do with it; the book's been out for only five days, and I don't want to spoil it for everyone who hasn't got to it yet.
Anyway that got me thinking. I've had times in my life when I wrote two songs a week most weeks and other times when I wrote maybe four songs a year. Do you have similar variations? Does pouring creativity into one aspect of your life seem to make you more, or less, creative in other aspects?
