![]() Will they be amazing words? Probably not, a lot of the time, but again, when a draft is due, not-amazing words are better than no words. ![]() You’ve got to sit down, get into the zone, and make some words happen. “Oh, I don’t really feel like writing today” won’t fly when you have an approaching deadline. Having had fiction writing as a spare-time passion for so many years, it’s been a real adjustment to get myself into the mindset of creating not just for fun but for the purpose of a specific finished product. In fact, it’s been quite daunting and draining at times, and, well… a lot of hard work.īecause writing is work. If that sounds like a lot of words, that’s because it is! Naturally, being afforded the chance to write, and write about writing, as part of my career, is very exciting… but just because I love writing and analysing fiction, doesn’t mean this has been all smooth sailing. What this means is that I’ll be submitting a work of fiction of up to 70,000 words, accompanied by an exegesis of up to 30,000 words explaining the purpose of the creative work and the research behind it (and justifying my Original Contribution to Knowledge). I am, at time of writing, in my third year of a PhD, doing a creative thesis. This time, I want to talk about Kanamori Sayaka-the invaluable team member who actually wrangles that wonder and forces it to take shape, providing representation of an oft-understated aspect of the creative process: discipline. In my last blog post about Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! I talked a lot about the sense of creative wonder, and I talked mostly about the characters Midori and Tsubame. That creative lightning strike is still part of the process, but you need to put in certain efforts to bottle that lightning and actually make it into something viewable by others. ![]() And yet, creative work is exactly that: work. The idea of creation as work is, while more widely understood in today’s capitalist hellscape, still something a lot of people are wrapping their heads around. ![]() Creators are still asked things like “where do you get your ideas?” as if a muse descends from the heavens and bestows them to a select chosen few. There is a pervasive myth of The Creative Genius: the great writers, or artists, or musicians, or filmmakers must receive divine inspiration, or perhaps are simply born with a unique knack for Making Art that mere mortals are not. ![]()
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