To add to my series of posts last week about barriers to creativity - I confirm that it's hard to be creative when I am busy at work doing boring stuff, when there is little free time, limited stimulation - and all I want to do is sleep. Issues that go round and round my head take up all my remaining 'brain' time. Glimmers I have noticed this week...
1. Time in a meeting when I was suppsoed to be taking notes and drifted off - I listed some ideas for poems, but couldn't catch any opening lines. But better than nothing.
2. Watching TV documentaries that I wasn't expecting ie one about old boats being dredged up from the Thames, another about brain surgery or gifted children not fulfilling their potential. They have to be documentaries ie someone has already structured some kind of narrative.
3. Walking round the Courtauld, seeing the Cezannes and the other pictures. Reading the notes beside the pictures in the exhibition, catching ideas and playing with them a little, seeing if there is potential.
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