Donald George
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C.M. Halstead:
Given your multi-faceted projects, I'm wondering if you are a Gemini or heavily influenced by the planets in Gemini. Is this a blessing or a curse? Myself, I'm always conflicted by multiple projects decreasing the focus on any one of them.
C.M. Halstead
I think it is both a blessing and a curse!
When I am in rough draft creative mode my brain sometimes flashes an image for a scene in another piece I am working on, I do not resist, instead I left myself pull that file open real quick and jot it down. Or I will create a folder and page quickly in the file I am working to jot the scene down there. My goal is to keep my brain in creative flow at all costs. When I allow myself to jump between stories I stay in flow mindset.
When I am editing a rough draft the curse kicks in, fer shizzle. That ADHD or whatever that has me wanting to work all over the place makes it harder for me to stay focused on editing. So I reward myself like I was in kindergarten and Im not joking! “Ok, if I edit these four scenes I can go a cookie, when I am done with this chapter I can have a cigar or go for a walk." Stuff like that.
Over the last nine years I’ve had to train myself to not treat the creative part of me like a clock worker or test taker, allowing myself to be all over the place during my creative time helps keep me in that mindset vs the logical one that rules other aspects of my life.
So, yes at times the blessing is creative flow, the curse is having to force focus during the non-flow parts of the process. Also, I am a Virgo, so no Gemini influence. No matter what, not allowing the judger or critic that resides in me to influence what I do or don’t do is beneficial to my creative process.
Thanks for asking, hopefully this provides some perspective.
Write on,
C.M.
When I am in rough draft creative mode my brain sometimes flashes an image for a scene in another piece I am working on, I do not resist, instead I left myself pull that file open real quick and jot it down. Or I will create a folder and page quickly in the file I am working to jot the scene down there. My goal is to keep my brain in creative flow at all costs. When I allow myself to jump between stories I stay in flow mindset.
When I am editing a rough draft the curse kicks in, fer shizzle. That ADHD or whatever that has me wanting to work all over the place makes it harder for me to stay focused on editing. So I reward myself like I was in kindergarten and Im not joking! “Ok, if I edit these four scenes I can go a cookie, when I am done with this chapter I can have a cigar or go for a walk." Stuff like that.
Over the last nine years I’ve had to train myself to not treat the creative part of me like a clock worker or test taker, allowing myself to be all over the place during my creative time helps keep me in that mindset vs the logical one that rules other aspects of my life.
So, yes at times the blessing is creative flow, the curse is having to force focus during the non-flow parts of the process. Also, I am a Virgo, so no Gemini influence. No matter what, not allowing the judger or critic that resides in me to influence what I do or don’t do is beneficial to my creative process.
Thanks for asking, hopefully this provides some perspective.
Write on,
C.M.
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