creativity and genius

This is a topic that I have been dealing with this entire semester, (perhaps with musicality substituted for creativity) specifically, for what I have lovingly called my 'stupid paper.' Okay, the paper is not stupid; the paper indeed is still an inanimate object last I checked. But I have put a lot of thinking time into it, and now the writing has become a horrible, tortuous process. Trying to organize thoughts and feelings via comprehensible words and form have never been my strong point.

That said, I love finding and hearing people's perspectives on creativity. This links you to a movie of Elizabeth Gilbert talking about creativity, and her desire to stop the perpetuation of the tortured genius! She believes that the change from the genius, or genie helping - (she compares them to Dobby the house-elf) which helped creative thinkers, and helped them to become a "glimpse of God" for that one moment - to the creative thinker being the genius is the beginning of the history of the suffering for the artist.

The lecture is only twenty minutes long, but I feel well-worth it.

I love the implications that this has for me and my faith in divine guidance, and the Holy Ghost.

I also appreciate the fact that she does not deny the need for good old hard work, either.

And now, back to the paper. It's due tomorrow! eep.

stupid paper.

:)