Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer - aim for a dozen new people each time - and return comments. This group is all about connecting! Be sure to link to this page and display the badge in your post.
November 06th Question: What creative activity do you engage in when you're not writing?
What are creative activities? A random google search produced the following: dance, drawing, gardening, photography, bead jewellery,
make simple puppets, DIY projects, craft, painting, music, roleplaying,
collage, doodle art, mug painting, hand lettering, drama, puppetry, origami,
art, coloring, journaling, scrapbooking, natural art, improvisation,
calligraphy, knitting, crochet, Zentangle, cartooning, costume making, flower
arranging, glassblowing, landscaping, nail art, pottery, sculpting, quilting,
soap making, tattoo art, macramé, sketching… and I think that’s the tip of the
iceberg.
Creative professionals seem to possess talent and
inspiration that allows them to excel at more than one type of imaginative undertaking
and many writers say that engaging in multiple creative activities helps their
writing.
Here are some famous writers and their creative pursuits.
Rudyard Kipling was well-known for his oil paintings
and watercolors.
Lewis Carroll was a talented photographer who may have toyed
with the idea of making a living out of it in his very early years.
Emily Dickinson
enjoyed baking treats for her family and friends and would even lower a basket
of cakes from her window to neighborhood children in the street below.
Leo
Tolstoy was also an avid chess player.
What are your creative activities? How do they inspire your writing?
Happy IWSG Day!
10 comments:
Hi Michelle - I'm always interested in others' creative pursuits ... I'm interested in so many things - I used to be sport oriented, but those days have gone - I watch! Cheers Hilary
Thanks for the list. I forgot that I like to make flower arrangements, which I learned how to do for my daughter's wedding.
There are so many creative things people can do!
This has been a very interesting question for November. It's interesting to find out what writers do when they're not writing.
Love reading what some famous authors' creative pursuits were. Thanks.
What is Zentangle?
while I've turned inward due to several exhausting health issues in the past few weeks, medical resolution has arrived, and I'm ready to create. This has been a timely topic for me, to prime the pump!
Influenced among Steven King, Edgar Allen Poe and The Bible
Great question to get me thinking about all the activities that fell by the wayside when job and kids to over. Now, I have nothing to blame for not pursuing them!
Aonymously Esther O'Neill, East of the Sun, IWSG, with No Signal Google doesn't seem to believe this, or accept that I can't pick up their texts,. Too messy to be creative, but this week, a three way cover design workshop, with cousins. for House of the Ghost Child .. Only painting I do involves walls, ceilings, floors, doors, clothes, hair... No portraits or landscape. But I have, at last, written about the haunted house where I used to live. Some of my many Australian cousins stayed there too.
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