[arg_discuss] Topic of the Week Sept. 14: Perspiration or Inspiration?

[Judy Tyrer]

I don't know about "waiting for an idea to come" as I think you have to be actively involved in DOING and then the idea comes.  It is in the doing of the project that one opens oneself up for ideas to flow.  You can't just watch TV all day waiting for inspiration.  You have to be actively involved in what you are wanting to achieve, regardless of the media in which you are working.  Inspiration comes through perspiration, I guess.  At least, that's been my experience.  

Judy 

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From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Phillips
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Subject: [arg_discuss] Topic of the Week Sept. 14: Perspiration or Inspiration?

This is a question that came up on IRC a few weeks ago. There are a
few ways that creative work happens. On the one hand, there's the
Stevie Wonder model, perspiration: You work and work and work (writing
dozens of songs a fay, and then, by the numbers, some of the work will
be chart-toppers. Then there's the inspiration model, the apocryphal
Voltaire writing Candide in three days: You wait until an idea comes
to you, and then you execute it in one dizzying whirlwind until it's
done.

So you: Where do you fall? Skew hard one way or the other? Someplace
in the middle? On one end and wish you were on the other?

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Andrea Phillips
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