Weekly Tweets for 2009-04-12
- reading this was a depressing way to start the morning… http://www.walletpop.com/specials/top-25-things-vanishing-from-america #
- getting truly disgusted with Tennessee weather… #
- thinking about the lesson plan for tonight… never would have considered myself to be a teacher… #
- g’morning twitterverse… still refueling on coffee… *yawn* #
- ok, this is getting serious… it’s been two weeks and my creative motivation is STILL flatlined… #
- g’morning twitterverse…. Happy Good Friday… #
- for the first time in a long time, this week actually went by pretty fast… #
- very cool… the newest version of tweetdeck has built in facebook integration and the ability to selectively choose when to use it… #
- can anyone explain to me why Taborets are so expensive??? #
- aha! I forgot the solution (mine, at least…) to creative doldrums: go shopping for art supplies… ;) #
- gah… *WANT* to draw…. *HAVE* to work… grrrrrr…… #
- ready for the work day to be over…. I have drawing to do…\ #
- I have to say: I like my Cintiq, but the new Intuos4 is really sweet… http://intuos.wacom.com/Americas/index.php #
- There’s something just not right about a facebook fanclub for grilled cheese sandwiches… Even worse, I feel like I should be a member… #
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Creative Doldrums
For reasons I can’t figure, I’ve been in those doldrums for the past couple of weeks. It’s maddening, because I acutely felt the passage of time during this period, but have nothing to show for it. No matter how many times I picked up a pencil, it just “wasn’t there”. I just couldn’t bring myself to even be interested, much less excited about any of the projects I was working on.
There are not many things worse for a creative mind than to be in that place where he/she’s flat. It’s like reaching for something that you’ve come to expect to be there, only to find yourself catching nothing but air. Creative minds, whether they be visual, written, or musical all experience these “highs and lows”. It tends to disturb me a bit more, since the last time I had a period like this, it lasted years.
Fortunately I get the feeling that I am beginning to emerge from that languid state. The fact that I am even posting about it is a good sign, since during that time I couldn’t even summon enough of a creative thought to fuel my alternate passion for writing. For the moment I’m chalking it all up to a momentary period of burnout, and the result was simply a need to “recharge the batteries”.
I guess the moral / lesson learned here is that if you find yourself in a similar place, not to despair about it too much. While it’s difficult to be at ease with it at the time, it’ll come back eventually. Some of the many suggestions I had was doing something simple like taking a walk, or reading a book (one even suggested dancing a jig… not sure if anyone really needs to see me doing that…). While I did try some of those things, I eventually went back to my tried and true form of therapy.
full speed ahead…
Weekly Tweets for 2009-04-05
- pondering: where do you go when you are ready to just give up? #
- for reasons passing understanding, I am on an 80’s music kick today… #
- mood = drained… creativity: flatlined… *sigh* #
- here it is: day 1 of no smoking…. *whimpers in fear* #
- Somehow I’ve managed to misplace my creativity… I know it’s around here somewhere…. #
- weird… for the last week I wasn’t able to draw so much as a stick figure, yet today I did a pretty decent dragon without even thinking… #
- making Jambalaya…. mmmmm hungry…… #
- dreaming of coffee while the 3 yr old midget watches “Finding Nemo”… *yawn* #
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Weekly Tweets for 2009-03-29
- doing some portrait work… #
- why do Sunday’s go by so damn fast? #
- Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #fantasy #artist #geek #
- ugh… stuck at home with massive head cold… cant breathe + sinus headache… owwww… #
- good grief, what a waste of a day… did nothing but sleep, play WOW, sleep, play WOW, etc… I hate having sinus infections… #
- just once I would like to believe it when a web application company claims their product to be “JSR compliant” #
- painting I want to buy, but cant afford.. :( http://tinyurl.com/cqg59z #
- there is no safe haven from spammers anymore, not even on Twitter… *grumble grumble* #
- According to Facebook, the “Peanuts” character I am most like is Schroeder… But… I don’t even play an instrument… #
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Weekly Tweets for 2009-03-22
- unbelievable… I am getting static from my 3 year old for leaving the toilet seat up in her bathroom…. :facepalm: #
- putting tights on a three year old should be an olympic sport… #
- g’morning twitterverse… it’s Monday…. again…. *grumble* *grumble* #
- sweet jeebus… a replacement stylus for my Cintiq is 70 bucks… #
- Sci-Fi channel changes their name to SyFy… Man, I feel a blog post coming on…. #
- Facebook is beginning to consume my world… #
- Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! #
- A Java development plan that involves ANY references to “Mork & Mindy” should be regarded as a sign of impending disaster… #
- feeling the need to be East bound and down… possibly even loaded up and truckin’ #
- is it wrong to drink german beer on an Irish holiday? #
- trying to split my focus between Java Development and sketching a dragon… it’s not working very well on either front… #
- stopping and starting Oracle Portal: I could die of old age before getting anything accomplished… #
- Is it too much to ask that at least once, I get some advance notice of the brick wall I’m about to run smack into? (Oracle Portal, again…) #
- Perfect cure for insomnia: Oracle Portal Documentation. WARNING: loss of sanity may occur in some cases… #
- Hey, Internet Explorer 8 is out! Yet another round of pain, suffering and all out misery! :golfclap: #
- it may be goofy, but “Psych” is one of the most funs shows on television… #
- 15 bajillion toys in this house, and my three year old is chasing a bug…. *sigh* #
- lamenting the lack of release date for Dragon Age: Origins and Diablo 3… *sigh* #
- getting geared up to watch the Battlestar Galactica finale… #
- loved the galactica finale… sad that it’s over… #
- my two 13 yr old nieces are spending the night, which means I’m surrounded by giggling teenage girls, and my wife is one of them… *sigh* #
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