Keep at it, Caleb! Yep. Writing takes practice, patience and just plain sticking to it. You and Dad should both join a writing group (I would assume one would have to choose carefully on this) like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were in groups who would encourage and stimulate them to improve and fine tune their writing. I can't wait to read your novel! Hurry up on that!!! (hint, hint!)
I had forgotten about this part of the conversation - when I said I’m done calling myself a writer. I like what you say about it, but I need more. If we aren’t writers, what are we?
If writing is merely a vessel for who I am, than what am I? I am what I write. I am why I write. Perhaps.
That is a great clarifying question. I think that the answer would necessarily get into "what is consciousness?" At the same time, we are made up of the pieces and parts of the lives we live, so our identity peripherally includes what we do. Perhaps there is something like a concentric circle to our identities, where the outer parts are things about us, but the inner parts ARE us. Shooting from the hip here!
I would say that creativity is an expression of identity, not the source of identity. We exist as conscious beings experiencing the world, and our creativity is a communication, synthesis, expression, metaphor of those experiences. Right??
Keep at it, Caleb! Yep. Writing takes practice, patience and just plain sticking to it. You and Dad should both join a writing group (I would assume one would have to choose carefully on this) like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were in groups who would encourage and stimulate them to improve and fine tune their writing. I can't wait to read your novel! Hurry up on that!!! (hint, hint!)
I had forgotten about this part of the conversation - when I said I’m done calling myself a writer. I like what you say about it, but I need more. If we aren’t writers, what are we?
If writing is merely a vessel for who I am, than what am I? I am what I write. I am why I write. Perhaps.
That is a great clarifying question. I think that the answer would necessarily get into "what is consciousness?" At the same time, we are made up of the pieces and parts of the lives we live, so our identity peripherally includes what we do. Perhaps there is something like a concentric circle to our identities, where the outer parts are things about us, but the inner parts ARE us. Shooting from the hip here!
Does you mean creativity is only a facet of our identity and not the entire thing? Or that creativity is not a part of identity?
I would say that creativity is an expression of identity, not the source of identity. We exist as conscious beings experiencing the world, and our creativity is a communication, synthesis, expression, metaphor of those experiences. Right??
Ooo I like that