Apparently being on an action/adventure/thriller kick means it's hard to sleep and you should stay up writing an action/adventure/thriller about silly boys and girls that you know and love.

While doing laundry, of course.

[And if you don't know what I reference, fear not. It is of no great concern.]

[Venice will probably survive anyway.] 

[On a side note, I shouldn't be fiddling with icons. I should probably be doing a lot of sleeping. HAH.]

Tags: creativity, icons, movies, not sleeping, writing

I find myself loving Neil Gaiman more and more and more, even though I have only read two of his books. I figure it is because I keep up with his blog--which, consequently is where I found the following quote. Now it might have been said elsewhere, by someone else, in the same or a different way, but I still love the way it sounds.

The art isn't the artist, the poem isn't the poet; trust the tale, not the teller.
Neil Gaiman, June 7, 2006

Tags: creativity, quotes, writing

It amazes me how much being around creative people increases the flow of one's own creative juices. Especially when it starts out with us all being silly.

Last night I sat down with Andrew, as has become our Thursday tradition, to write the Stardust thing. (Chronicles, Files, whatever.) It started out well enough, and we did eventually get a pretty interesting scene typed, but it was only one scene...we were planning to make it farther. However, I was the one mainly typing, being faster and a little better, and we wanted to get the scene out before we lost track of it. So Andrew and Jamie were talking and I would zone in every once in a while.

Somehow, we started talking about X-men. Who we loved, who we hated, the relationships we liked and so on. Then it got to what powers would we want. Then what powers would we have. Then how our powers would develop and how we would use them. Then came the location and how we would meet...it grew and grew and I didn't make it out until well after our standard eleven o-clock break point.

It rocked hard.

Just having fun with creative people rocks hard. I want to write now, I want to draw, I want to do something...but I can't. I have to go fail my Latin exam. Ugh.

Edit:
I most likely did not fail. However, it would take EFFORT to fail Latin. So yeah. We'll see.

Tags: creativity, friends, school, writing