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Old 04-08-2002, 05:21 PM
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Creative bouts

Does anyone else have particular tasks that they find incompatible with creativity?

One of the reasons I stopped posting the creative writing challenges was because I was in the middle of a huge proofreading project and found that I couldn't write a creative sentence to save my life.

Editing I find to be a highly creative task. Proofreading is mind-boggling dull and requires me to turn an entire different part of my brain on. I suppose there is a way to overcome this, but I haven't figured it out yet.

Do you find certain things to be incompatible with creative writing? Or is it simply a lack of discipline?
 
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Old 04-08-2002, 05:45 PM
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Accounting, definitely.

If my brain has been in billing mode, reconciling mode, payables mode, etc. I find I cannot just switch it off and write - I have to intriduce a grace period to get back into the swing of creativity.

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