I’m planning to get creatively divergent soon …
About a fortnight ago I wrote about doing some creativity cross-training to help my fiction writing - that is, doing some form of creative activity that I don’t usually do with the idea that it could help expand my creative thinking in general, and therefore, hopefully improve my writing too.
The main feedback I got was from my friend Katrina who told me (less bluntly than this) that there was no place for a word like “cross-training” on this blog. And of course, she’s right, because it sounds dreadfully like some awful aerobics lesson that involves far too much Lycra. She made a much nicer suggestion for a phrase to describe this idea: she says I should be creatively divergent. So that’s what I’ll be calling it from now on!
Anyway, the exciting thing is that, in the usual synchronicity of life, I just came across a tool to help my creative divergence. I was unpacking some more boxes (boxes that I packed up in 2001 before moving overseas, so you can imagine the excitement of seeing what’s in them), and I came across my collection of Fimo modelling clay. You know, that colourful stuff you can shape into whatever you want, throw it in the oven, and whammo, it’s solid and tough and you can do whatever you want with it. I used to make earrings and fridge magnets and goodness knows what else with this stuff and I’m dying to get my fingers back into it.
On my return from my Melbourne trip I hope to have time to get into the Fimo project, and I’m looking forward to it. Then we’ll see if this whole creative divergence makes me more creative or is just a good diversion instead!
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I’m so glad you wrote that down when I said it, as I couldn’t remember it for the life of me! So today, I have been creatively divergent in doing the dishes, washing clothes and paying bills … do they count? It’s organising, just of the most boring and banal variety