I was rather ashamed when I saw this topic from Long and Short Reviews come up, because I am surprisingly limited in my creative outlets.
I am not, for instance, a person who goes in for arts and crafts. I can't draw, I don't knit or crochet, and while I know people who cross-stitch and embroider, I've never done it myself. So at the moment my only creative outlet is my writing.
I'm currently working on a piece with the working title of Hyperventilating. It has been re-planned about five times now but it's finally getting somewhere - and it has the advantage of allowing me to use a past creative outlet, which is songwriting. My hero is a rock star, and in my past I made several attempts at writing song lyrics, none of which were worthy of anything but which can be quoted safely whenever I write about my hero in performance.
Makes a nice change from having to remove all song lyrics for trademark purposes!
So what are your creative outlets?
That’s neat to use your book as a vehicle for songwriting. I hope it’s going well.
ReplyDeleteI love to quote song lyrics, so at least there are no trademark issues.
DeleteSongwriting is a pretty neat hobby.
ReplyDeleteSadly I wasn't any good at it, but I enjoyed it.
DeleteI wish I could write lyrics, but I'm not all that great at it. Kudos to you!
ReplyDeleteI'm not that great either - I wish I was!
DeleteHey, writing absolutely counts as a creative outlet!
ReplyDeleteNice! Good luck with the book, too. Glad to hear you're finally making some headway.
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It's surprising just how hard it's been to write during lockdown, so I'm trying to push myself.
DeleteWriting is the ultimate in creativity. I can write poetry, but can't put them into music.
ReplyDeleteI can't write poetry, so kudos to you.
DeleteI had kind of the same reaction: aside from writing, I don't feel like I do that much. I used to -- I used to draw, for example, and in my teens I put together the most amazing patch jacket, but I just don't seem to have that kind of time or attention anymore.
ReplyDeleteNeither of those are skills I have, so I'm impressed.
DeleteHow lucky for you to have song lyrics you can quote in a book! My very first book, I didn't realize that wasn't allowed. I've since given the publisher rewrites that removed the lyrics. And I took them all out of the books I self-published when the publisher closed. But to me, it diminishes the mood I was trying to set.
ReplyDeleteSong lyrics are poems to music. They are the musical and lyrical manifestations of feelings. A true art.
I love to quote lyrics, so I hate having to take them out. I can't claim mine are much good, but at least they're mine.
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