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Charles Graeber:
When did you realize that you wanted to express your creativity and knowledge through writing? Was it encouraged by others? What creative expressions (e.g. art, dance, media, music) have you tried in the past, present or future to express your creativity through?
Charles Graeber
Writing is a way of figuring out what you think. Or visualizing ideas on paper. Or organizing yourself. Or-- many things. I draw everything before I write it. But the drawings aren't quite right.
I was a poet, before that a cartoonist, a painter- I still am, but less so, especially the poetry. Poetry is weaponized language, or, less aggressively, concentrated consciousness. Just add water. But you can do other things in less concentrated form, employ tools of narrative and timing and give it a beat and pacing...all the creative forms aspire to the condition of music anyway I think. Right?
I was a poet, before that a cartoonist, a painter- I still am, but less so, especially the poetry. Poetry is weaponized language, or, less aggressively, concentrated consciousness. Just add water. But you can do other things in less concentrated form, employ tools of narrative and timing and give it a beat and pacing...all the creative forms aspire to the condition of music anyway I think. Right?
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