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| Phases of a creative woman OKcomputer 21 Aug 08 9:56PM | Thread Closed |
Specimen: I am a female, and my creative abilities and urges vary according to the phases of my menstrual cycle. I have been studying my moods and the artworks birthed therefrom for the last five or six months. These are my vague personal findings.
Just wondering: Can any other creative women confirm or deny a correlation between hormones and creativity?
I have not studied any male creative specimens.
Anyway, here are my creative phases in broad terms.
i. Laziness - 3 days of the month, with the leaden weight in my ankles increasing with each hour. I feel guilty for loafing around. My face is covered with pimples and I am too self conscious to speak to anyone. I believe myself to be common, delusional to have ever called myself an artist.
ii. I believe that my works are worthless - 2 days of the month, overlaps subsequently with my laziness. This is a low point, and I oftentimes feel all of my personal worth diminish. For two days every month, I am severely depressed.
iii. Hmmmm . . . I am only slightly gifted, nothing to write home about - 3 days, following and overlapping the last phase.
iv. Maybe I am a genius? - comes like an epiphany, at the climax of my creative energy.
v. I cry over my creations, in love with myself - comes simultaneously with epiphany
vi. Leftovers - I will myself to produce on leftover energy, but find that I can create less and less, until nothing comes out.
i. I return to laziness. Like now, here I sit, with specific aims. They are unattainable. I can see that I will not be heading in that direction, and even if I did, it would all turn out like a stillborn carcass of an idea.
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| re: Phases of a creative woman OKcomputer 21 Aug 08 9:57PM | Thread Closed |
I left out one important factor: I spend much of my down-time with milk and cookies.
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| re: Phases of a creative woman Mongrol 22 Aug 08 1:10AM | Thread Closed |
interesting read OK, and sympathise with a lot you say
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| re: Phases of a creative woman netskyIam 22 Aug 08 1:58AM | Thread Closed |
one thing for sure, a common thing, is that you tend to be a self denigrating genius all month long. It's an OK thing, but too, I know you know the real score.
If ever there were a more instropective or more self-critical person, who does NOT take herself one tenth as seriously as most (less gifted) males, then show me that nun-one.
You're so aptly screen named.
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| re: Phases of a creative woman chuckle_s 22 Aug 08 4:48AM | Thread Closed |
here is a little life-hint for you. maybe destroy some of your guilt.
YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL
seriously. what i mean is that whenever you are feeling disgust, or fear, or guilt, or why the hell do i like this? why the hell don't i like this? why the hell did i do that? remember that LOTS of people are the same way. certainly, they won't be near so articulate, or tuned-in to their deep thinking as you, but the basic feelings really are very much the same. regardless of upbringing, social status and all that bullshit, humans share many deeply rooted emotions and react much the same, in general, to certain stimuli of the environment; life.
fear not! you are NORMAL.
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| re: Phases of a creative woman OKcomputer 22 Aug 08 12:38PM | Thread Closed |
:) :) :)
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| re: Phases of a creative woman OKcomputer 22 Aug 08 12:38PM | Thread Closed |
newborn babies wailing!
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| re: Phases of a creative woman unknown 22 Aug 08 12:48PM | Thread Closed |
“There is no mind more attuned to creativity, than a scheming woman especially a lesbian.”
Shaw o’ Inchory’s proverb.
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| re: Phases of a creative woman Mongrol 22 Aug 08 6:03PM | Thread Closed |
> “There is no mind more attuned to creativity, than a scheming woman
> especially a lesbian.”
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> Shaw o’ Inchory’s proverb.
not his eulogy?
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| re: Phases of a creative woman AlchemiA 22 Aug 08 7:47PM | Thread Closed |
ditto on chuckles --
The "I'm Special" slippery slope is a common ailment of fears and worries and even Wars are a result of this fallacy. It is the Fear of being found out lacking in some way when actually the opposite is the Truth: you are the Light learning to shine on -- it only feels like criticism when your ego is at stake -- that incipient fear of not being good enough. Even shyness is a result of this ailment -- an egoic arrogance prancing or flailing with TV dinners as the medium of action
The DarWINian DNA Dream of every sperm and every egg,
I am special they cry, look at me,
I'm the best you could ever be!
Desire monkey dreams
and I'm special ya' know 'cause I got through darWINian schemes
as the fastest lil' guy in these binary streams ...
so said the Monkey on the hierarchical tree
as he was falling unwittingly!
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