Showing posts with label creativity; ; NaNoWriMo;; inner critic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creativity; ; NaNoWriMo;; inner critic. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

First review and a small challenge

So today I posted my first review on Shvoom. It's a review of the science fiction classic by CS Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet. I plan to follow it with reviews of the two other novels in the trilogy, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. Then I'll review some other works, probably the Dragonkeeper chronicles.

I am writing these reviews for two reasons: 1. to practice my craft of writing and 2. to stay in the Nanowrimo habit of writing consistently. They may start to feel like homework in a while, so we'll see how it goes. When I have a WIP (work in progress), I don't want to feel like I have too many distractors. Part of creativity is in just producing work, everything does not spring from the artist's skull like Athena from the head of Zeus. Don't I wish!

On the other hand, when I don't have a WIP going strong, it is good to continue practicing my craft with actual writing. The charting I do at work (I am a nurse practitioner) is not supposed to be creative. It's supposed to be as uniformly written as possible, which does not lend itself to the creative process.

The Challenge: the challenge is that I joined the christianwriters.com December blog chain. The theme is Christmas (no more detail than that), and my date is Dec 21. So I need to write a blog on that topic, right here! I need to do a bit of research on it, and I hope my fellow cwr's will enjoy it.

My next entry will be a bit more interesting than this one: I'm going to talk about -- and diss! -- my own inner critic. See you soon.



If you want to check out my review, here is the link to it. Thanks!