The Chocolate of Creativity

Posted on February 23, 2009 in Originality & Creativity

I should prescribe for Mr Pontifex a course of the larger mammals. Don’t let him think he is taking them medicinally….

Samuel Butler, [amazonify]1434617106::text::::The Way of All Flesh[/amazonify]

Good writing is something to reach for. The pleasure cannot be had by merely doing the job at the same time every day according to the same laws, but by having healthy bites of the chocolate of creativity. If composition is merely a task, merely diary, then what joy can it bring? By the mere blunder of a puttering b where there is the eternal question — “y” — a mere job ensues.

Every person who urges me to write as “therapy” wants to put me on a banal diet of ponderousness. I write best when I write as a practice of happiness.