Ep 2: The Mundane Window

Creatively Complicated

English - June 07, 2019 15:03 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: Ep 3: Creative Ideal Angst

Next Episode: Ep 4: Travel and Brain Frenzy

Welcome to the Creatively Complicated podcast, where we dive into the messiness of our creativity. Summer and Stephanie are two Americans living abroad in two different countries: Germany and China. We met via podcasting so it made sense for us to start a podcast to talk through our creative ponderings. This podcast is about as far as one can go from an advice podcast, it is more of a process through the deep, murky waters of our own creative struggles.

In this episode we take a step back and try to notice patterns in our own creative struggles, uncovering both disturbing and comforting truths about our creativity. For both of us, the creative juices flow when we are doing mundane tasks not related to our own passion projects. What is wrong with us? Is it the lack of creative pressure or the act of being productive that makes this happen? Summer questions why she can’t replicate this mundanity to create artificial deadlines for her blog. Burnt out 3 podcast producing Steph wonders why 90 minute interviews do not exhaust her but writing a 4 sentence summary in the podcast show notes takes over an hour to write. And collectively we struggle to put copying, stealing and completely new creating something on a cline. And more so, we wonder why we need to map this out at all. Maybe it’s something like this:

__A.__B.__C.___D.__E.

A. stolen B. mostly copied C. partly copied D. inspired by E. 100% original

Creative terminology/ideas to emerge from this episode:

“The creative window” (Steph)

“You were my root vegetable” (Steph)

LINKS

Stephen King’s book: “On Writing” : https://amzn.to/2LlqmgK

Summer’s local park photo from IG: http://bit.ly/2LhKuAq

“Steal Like An Artist” : http://bit.ly/2Vjx5g5

“Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert : https://nyti.ms/2Y1NQck

(Creativity comes in seasons idea)

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