The Robcast Episode 100 with Rob and Elizabeth Gilbert is rather interesting and insightful on so many levels.
One topic that they had a bit of a riff on was the idea of creating something, just because. Rob created a character with his kids called Dicky …
He went all out, got some stories together, a bunch of illustrations and a pitch for publishers and was flat out rejected. So Dickie ended up in a file in the garage.
Elizibeth had just been playing with poetry, which turned into lyrics, which turned into recording a song. For what? The fun of it basically.
Guess what, nobody died in the process.
It is so liberating that these people who have quote made it quote, still have the freedom to play and experiment with ideas, and better yet, they don’t always turn out to be mega successful works, like their previous work.
I was recently at a meeting and a mother had to bring her daughters to it and they say in the corner on a small table made at children height and just created with pens and pencils and things for the hour. Why? Because it’s fun! Arrr to learn to get back to the point of doing stuff for the fun of it.
That reminds me, I really should get that new box of LEGO out and built it.