Twice in my life, I've had a close person tell me that I'm "not REALLY creative." Both followed up trying to find a word that would more correctly describe my lifetime of writing, drawing, and teaching. "Inventive" was one attempt. I can't recall the others. I was shocked. (Hurt came later.) My art teacher mother and my close friend had a couple of things in common: 1) They both were doing other things than working on their creative projects and 2) they both had never made money from their projects. While I've done pretty well in getting paid for anything I create. That was also thrown at me as a reason I couldn't qualify as "creative" as I was "working" instead of creating for its own sake...in their perspectives.
Recently, I've had a couple of people leave one of my long ongoing writing groups. Each of them gave the reason that some members weren't knowledgeable about the facts in "writing theory" or educated enough to know forms of feedback on projects. My experience is that groups thrive when some members come primarily with readership contributions, rather than complex writing skill discussions. Some of each, is delicious. Ariele
Twice in my life, I've had a close person tell me that I'm "not REALLY creative." Both followed up trying to find a word that would more correctly describe my lifetime of writing, drawing, and teaching. "Inventive" was one attempt. I can't recall the others. I was shocked. (Hurt came later.) My art teacher mother and my close friend had a couple of things in common: 1) They both were doing other things than working on their creative projects and 2) they both had never made money from their projects. While I've done pretty well in getting paid for anything I create. That was also thrown at me as a reason I couldn't qualify as "creative" as I was "working" instead of creating for its own sake...in their perspectives.
Recently, I've had a couple of people leave one of my long ongoing writing groups. Each of them gave the reason that some members weren't knowledgeable about the facts in "writing theory" or educated enough to know forms of feedback on projects. My experience is that groups thrive when some members come primarily with readership contributions, rather than complex writing skill discussions. Some of each, is delicious. Ariele