Creativity

         Creativity is the natural process in which we play the role of God and create universes. We don't know exactly where it comes from. Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat. Pray. Love., says that Ancient Civilizations believe it was drawn from a powerful secondary source. The more modern belief is that it comes from within one's self. I don't think we as humans are supposed to know where creativity comes from. It's just something you have, it's your imagination at work. When God created the universe, it required a great deal of creativity. Maybe that's why we have it. Its all about the journey. We could write a particularly boring tale, where it addresses all the points and ideas but it isn't a fun read. The cliff notes version. That's why we write everything that lies between these points.
          Free writing is letting whatever pops in your head to be jotted down on paper, this allows us to open the dams we have created within our own minds. These dams stop creativity like one stops a river. We are constantly coming up with great ideas. But always when it comes to placing it on paper, there is a block. Good writers know how to destroy these blocks using free writing. Writing towards a specific goal, but how you reach the goal is whatever your mind or the creativity inside your walls puts there for you. There would be thousands more best sellers if people knew the quality of free writing. It is beautiful. Writing comes from within, and there is no perfect formula for writing. Just like you can't change someone else. No one can tell you how to write, they give suggestions, but what works is completely determined by you.
          The connections won't be there immediately, lets say you were writing a book and two characters started out unrelated, but upon rewrite you discover that it would make more sense if you connected those and dots and made them brother and sister. You connect those dots and then a world forms. It may be the thoughts on the World that already exists or your fictional universe created in your head as part of fantasy. You take that being that resides within your walls. Creativity. Then you channel it through your hands into words contained on a page. It is like a leaking faucet, creativity, it drips constantly, but it doesn't come at a pace you can set your watch to. You wish it would come at a steady pace, but it just drops and drops until it forms a puddle or in the sense of creativity "an idea" and then we link those ideas together into a chain like connecting the dots.
           What I am trying to get across here is that everyone has creativity. It's about sitting down, not putting it off till tomorrow, not waiting for inspiration to come. Writing isn't like that. It's about opening the floodgates and just writing.
            Thanks for reading.

            ~Drew Helmes