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darklight20

At a loss

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creativity

writing

technical

ideas

stifling

Ever feel like making a blog entry, but have no ideas to write about? I find I feel that way quite often. I enjoy sitting down and putting my thoughts into words, I just never feel like I have any thoughts worth writing about. Do I just not think about things deeply enough? Do I not realize when I'm thinking about something I want to write about?

This brings me to another point, something I've believed for a few years now. First of all, don't get me wrong, I like my career field, I liked going to an engineering school. But, I think technical schools and programs limit creativity. I used to love creative writing. At times, I have looked back at papers I wrote in high school, and I actually have a difficult time believing that the words on the page came from me. I went to college for civil engineering - a world of variables and equations, where everything is looked at in terms of which formula to use to reach the desired outcome.

I have tried to write, just for the fun of it, a few times since college, and it seems my vocabulary and my ability to convey my thoughts eloquently has practically disappeared. Maybe it's like anything else, a foreign language for example. If you don't use it, you lose it. But I also feel that the problem solving techniques used in such math-based fields can really have a stifling affect on creativity, and that saddens me. I'd love to be able to write the way I used to. I just don't have any ideas.

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shoeshineboy on

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I understand what you mean. I constantly sit here and want to write about things on my mind, but I just can't put the words together. I believe my methodical days at work have taken my very own creativity away from me.

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darklight20 on

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Yeah, routine ruins it...

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violetbloom on

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That's why you have to exercise your creativity. Take it for walks. Try making the mudane sound more interesting than it really was

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darklight20 on

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Yeah, it would probably help if I tried to write more often, but the problem of not knowing what to write about arises.

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lunchfly2415 on

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six says the same thing about your line of work.

i find that interesting.

but creativity is something you must feed for it to grow.

maybe you and six ought to find a place to make pottery together, just to feed the need. or do something that wakes you up again, like say parasailing. it doesnt even have to be that dramatic. jump into cold water if you want...just find a way to come back to life, because it is a world of use it or lose it that we live in.

good luck

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darklight20 on

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I suppose my mode of creativity has changed over the years as well. I used to draw (or sketch, at least) and write, now I'm into photography. So, I guess it's not completely gone, but it's changed.

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six24 on

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I feel like I think of a million things I could write about when I'm away from the computer. Then the moment I sit down to write, everything vanishes.

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darklight20 on

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Yeah, I know that feeling, too, it's just not as common as feeling like I have nothing at all to write about.