{"id":609,"date":"2008-04-30T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2008-04-30T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T16:49:02","slug":"i-demand-creativity-from-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/i-demand-creativity-from-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I demand creativity from myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an adage as old as the practice of writing itself: if you want to be a good writer, you have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=author+write+every+day\">write every day<\/a>. The same advice works for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=artist+draw+every+day\">artists<\/a>. I want to be a good writer. I also would love to be a good artist\/designer. Let&#8217;s face it, I just want to be good at <em>creating<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything since <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/category\/nanowrimo\/\">November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I doodle only once in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/drsetebos\/comics.php?action=gallery&amp;comic_id=8820\">great while<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then, I change the header banner here on the site.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not demanding enough out of myself.<\/p>\n<p>So, from this moment on (until the day I finally give up on the idea) I&#8217;m demanding more from me. More writing. More drawing. More <em>creativity<\/em>. I&#8217;m not looking for a spark. I&#8217;m not looking for a new life. I&#8217;m just looking for more <em>ideas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Every day I will either write something (more than likely something to be posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\/authors\/drsetebos\">Ficlets<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protagonize.com\/author\/DrSetebos\">Protagonize<\/a>) or I will draw something (and post it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/drsetebos\">ComicSpace<\/a>). Because I want to <em>create<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I demand creativity from myself. And damn it, I&#8217;m going to get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an adage as old as the practice of writing itself: if you want to be a good writer, you have to write every day. The same advice works for artists. I want to be a good writer. I also would love to be a good artist\/designer. Let&#8217;s face it, I just want to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[387,37,425,565,549,714],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","tag-art-2","tag-drawing","tag-ficlets","tag-ficly","tag-protagonize","tag-writing","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}