The Joy of Creating

I’ve had a bad week recently, lots of political nonsense I’ve overheard and my school where the building is ever-so-slightly falling apart a little more each day.

Being on the spectrum, I do not take sudden shifts in my daily routine very well. I’ve been mighty irritated these past couple of days. However, there’s always been one thing that’s been keeping me in a sound(ish) state of mind, and that’s the joy of creating.

Nothing calms me down faster than banging Wario Ware DIY into my DS and messing around with the preexisting songs and songmakers until I create something new and exciting.

After my first experience with this sort of stress relief, after experiencing overstimulation for some odd reason, I suddenly realized one thing.

I love creating what I consider to be ‘art’.

‘Art’ is a term that’s very loosely defined. To some people it might mean a completely different thing to another. It’s the beauty of the English language. You can have a simple word like art, but the feelings and emotions that word carry are something completely different.

To me, ‘art’ is mainly a unique intersection of feeling and idea. It’s why I consider Everywhere at the End of Time art. It took a very unique idea and interjected it with feeling. While stuff like that project’s offshoots are definitely art, the one that stands above them all as art, emphasized, is the original.

It doesn’t have to be particularly good, but so long as it takes a unique concept and gives me a lot of reason to care, it can be considered ‘art’.

Apologies for sounding like a scholarly article, my bad grade on my science CTE rough draft is getting to me.

In reality, my definition of art doesn’t need to match up with yours. It can be anything you want, but my definition impacts how I tend to enjoy what I create.

If you look through some of my ideas I’ve pushed forward (most of which I haven’t got around to doing), you may notice that a lot of my more ambitious ones involve some sort of novel concept. FOE:21CB, taking place during the war, that was a concept I really enjoyed and one I still enjoy. My unnamed Rock history project, a loosely connected story told entirely through media such as newspapers, that’s a novel concept, while inspired by AuroraDawn’s 10th Anniversary Rainbow Factory thing where he made found-footage type character profiles.

Heck, even Raining., a semi-autobiographical story where I spent more time watching a young pony’s head play Ping-Pong with their braincells than writing a story with a plot, that’s a novel concept.

This has started to extend beyond my stories, too, as I’m now thinking about making an audio drama sort of thing that is entirely an FO:E story told from the DJ’s perspective.

I love all of these things, and I likely will continue to love them, because to me, they are the intersection of feeling and idea. They’re art, at least to me.

I’m currently taking Liberal Arts classes, even though I know very well it’s a pretty useless degree. But, as I explained to someone on the QnS server, I can be a starving artist for all I care, so long as I enjoy the art I make, that’s all I need to feel happy in life.

I write the blog post to tell anyone who’s reading it, if you feel like your stories aren’t getting anywhere, not necessarily in popularity, but you feel like you’re stagnating creatively and/or not enjoying what you’re writing, try thinking outside the box. Try coming up with unique concepts and writing them.

Even if they don’t work out, I’m fairly certain that you will be happy you at least tries making something new you’e never seen before.

And until next time; be awesome!
-Dashie