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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Write with your heart. Edit with your head.


Sean Connery said, “you write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”

We always need to generate new ideas for the different things that we do and there is no strict rule on how to do this. At times we edit in our minds before we even start writing or executing our ideas. Developing an outline for a written project or creating a sketch for visual arts projects saves us from wasting our time doing and redoing things. However, there are times when we think too much that we come to a point where we are already censoring our creativity.

Let's take photography as an example. In photography class, we learned how important it is to use the correct camera settings and identify what setting would let us create good pictures. Sometimes we lose the opportunity to capture photographs of interesting things because we already preempt our own thoughts that it won't look good because we lack a certain camera feature or we don't know how to do something. Since we failed to take a picture because of over thinking about what is technically expected to fail, we didn’t have an actual product to evaluate or edit.

Sometimes we have to trust ourselves in order to make things happen. Don’t expect everything to look good when you first write, draw or create it; don’t always avoid doing something because it looks bad in your mind. The famous philosopher Albert Camus said, “all great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”

Here is a video from Langara College that challenges us to push our creativity, and shows us the value of evaluating our work after we’ve executed our ideas.



Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Langara College on Vimeo.

1 comments:

Izzia said...

I totally agree with you D. I believe the best ideas start out as a rough draft...like your thoughts transferred on paper. Without thinking about what we're doing, we let pure creativity flow and not let things like logic and common sense hamper our soon-to-be-brilliant ideas. This goes to show that there ARE times when it is necessary to use your heart over your mind. :)

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