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The Blurred Line of Creativity and Need

Posted on August 21, 2012November 19, 2012 by Diana Brandmeyer

a2z is for Creativity

Why does anyone create?

Are we driven by some great need to make something never made before?
Use the back of a bus to create more storage
BussShed or ShedBuss?

Or
Is creativity driven by need?

In this case someone needed more storage than the shed could hold. Creative solution? Cut an opening in the wall and add the back of a buss.

In 1929 Laura Ingalls Wilder’s family suffered financially from the stock market crash. She began writing biographical stories which became the Little House on the Prairie books. Would she have written them if the need hadn’t been great? Was it creativity or need for Laura? 

My son, Andy is an artist. He’s painted some amazing stuff and paints what he enjoys, but that line becomes blurred when bills are higher than expected. Then he paints smaller canvases which sell faster. Those are the ones I can afford!

Painting of Foreset Park by Andrew Brandmeyer
Forest Park by Andrew Brandmeyer

I create but not out of need–right now.
I write what I love, and if all goes well I get published.  There may come a time when I must use that creativity in a way I don’t love–the worst thing I can think of is writing an article for a math magazine.

Do those exist? Shudder. I can’t imagine what kind of chaos I could create between the covers.

How have you blurred the line of creativity and need?

Diana

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14 thoughts on “The Blurred Line of Creativity and Need”

  1. Niki Turner says:
    August 27, 2012 at 8:25 am

    You hit the nail on the head for me… I'm writing articles as a stringer for the local papers. On assignment. It's definitely a case of NEED trumping creativity, and that makes it hard. I have to really work to wrap my head around ways to write some of these articles creatively!

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 27, 2012 at 8:27 am

      Niki,
      I've had to do few of those in the past (need jobs) and it is hard. Hugs.
      Diana

      Reply
  2. Great Lakes Romances says:
    August 25, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    The line between creativity and need gets blurred for me when our nonprofit organization needs to put out a newsletter and I'm the one with the technical and creative skills to do it. No pay involved, just an expectation to be met that our donors will hear from us once a year. Afterward the funds roll in for more restoration projects at our historic state park, so it's worth the time and effort, and that pay is actually better than what I get for my fiction writing.

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 25, 2012 at 8:50 pm

      Great Lakes Romances,
      Newsletters take forever to get out. It's nice that you do it for the park. What park is it? Where is it?
      Diana

      Reply
  3. Janet says:
    August 22, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    I like this. Thank you, Diana. I like your son's artwork, too. Enjoy your day!

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 22, 2012 at 3:10 pm

      Thank you Janet, I'll let him know you like it.
      Diana

      Reply
  4. retha says:
    August 22, 2012 at 5:19 am

    Out of need I had to face the maths monkey on my back. Not to make money, for home schooling. Well, suppose then it did make money in a way because money did not leave. But writing an article for the mathematics magazine, No. Actually that is writing for anything.

    Thank you for the visit.

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 22, 2012 at 7:28 am

      Retha, sometimes you just have to *cliche alert* bite the bullet!
      Diana

      Reply
  5. Shelley Wilburn says:
    August 21, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    I would probably get a rejection letter from a Math magazine that said, “Don't do that again!” Ha ha! I haven't blurred the lines between creativity and need… yet. Hope I never have to. Right now, I write because that's what I feel God has called me to do. Until then… well, we'll see. ;] Good post.

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 22, 2012 at 7:27 am

      See, that's how silly I am! I didn't even consider a math magazine would reject me. 🙂
      Diana

      Reply
  6. Valerie Comer says:
    August 21, 2012 at 8:21 pm

    I'm not desperate enough to write math articles, either. I'm also pretty sure they don't want me to!

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 22, 2012 at 7:26 am

      Valerie, it's nice to know I'm not alone in the “I don't do math club.”
      Diana

      Reply
  7. Ginger says:
    August 21, 2012 at 9:48 am

    I am thankful that I don't have a need that MAKES me be creative for financial reasons. Other needs, like organizing my large family, stress my creativity to the max some days. 🙂

    Blessings.

    Reply
    1. Diana Lesire Brandmeyer says:
      August 21, 2012 at 11:01 am

      Me too Ginger. I'm pretty sure I'd fail.
      Diana

      Reply

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