jamesg1213

Moshkito

sharke
All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

BS. You are not the best judge for your own material, because, just like all of us creative folks, we're our own worst enemy and critics. As Pogo said ... "We's met dah en'my. It's us!"
 
From a writing perspective, this is important. It takes away the idea that one moment you can and the next you can't. And it helps develop the idea of the whole piece together, and you learn to see it for what it is and how you relate to it.
 
 
I have, a lot of small bits and pieces of poetry, like 3 or 4 lines, kinda just standing there, but they never show up anywhere else, until the minute I erase them and send them on their way back to the inventory line for creativity. Almost like clockwork, the next day, those set of words, sometimes just a verb moved, shows up somewhere else ...
 
I end up feeling that we're not machines, and our internal and creative process can not be taken as some kind of mechanical exercise, because that will generally hurt it, not help it.

Pedro - do you post any of this stuff on poetry or creative writing forums? I'd love to read the responses.
 

He probably talks about music on them

I'm so surprised that Strummy hasn't busted this one out yet.
(Though he'll probably drag some ancient forum thread out of the archives to prove me wrong!) 
 

bitflipper
 
It's incredibly liberating to create something that you know will cease to exist the moment you do.

I like this angle.  Creation and destruction are two sides of the same coin. over and out!  Btw it looks like Prince might have been sort of like Salinger in some ways..in that he has a trove of unpublished works.  I've always wondered whether Paul Mcartney don't have a bunch of stuff as well.  These geniuses can't just stop creating the minute they don't got an audience, do they?

Moshkito

sharke
All my best playing goes completely unrecorded (and unheard by anyone but me) 

BS. You are not the best judge for your own material, because, just like all of us creative folks, we're our own worst enemy and critics. As Pogo said ... "We's met dah en'my. It's us!"
 
From a writing perspective, this is important. It takes away the idea that one moment you can and the next you can't. And it helps develop the idea of the whole piece together, and you learn to see it for what it is and how you relate to it.
 
I have, a lot of small bits and pieces of poetry, like 3 or 4 lines, kinda just standing there, but they never show up anywhere else, until the minute I erase them and send them on their way back to the inventory line for creativity. Almost like clockwork, the next day, those set of words, sometimes just a verb moved, shows up somewhere else ... I end up feeling that we're not machines, and our internal and creative process can not be taken as some kind of mechanical exercise, because that will generally hurt it, not help it.

Why can't I be the best judge of my own material? Absolutely no reason why I can't be. 

sharkeWhy can't I be the best judge of my own material? Absolutely no reason why I can't be.

 
Excellent post!
 
 

sharke

sharkeWhy can't I be the best judge of my own material? Absolutely no reason why I can't be.

Excellent post!

Why can't I mark my own posts as helpful? Total BS!
 

I did it for you.  

michaelhanson
I did it for you.  

You've been a great help!

Hey!  I helped too!!!