do you filter it before its even created?

recently I've been thinking a lot about creativity and the thought proccesses behind it. My theory is that true creativity is when you just let the pen (in the case of writing) flow and not think about what you write, not analysing or worrying it doesn't make sense. this has really only become something clear to me this past month, so I'm trying to write without putting a "filter" on until the pen has stopped flowing, which is how my poems in the poetry forum have been written. does anyone else write in this way or even understand what I mean?

 

I used to do this a lot. I still do, actually, but I've taken to just filling up notebooks with freewriting and now I'm on my nineth 80 A6 book of directionless gibberish and have yet to write a novel/song of any kind. It's potentially useful as a way to form ideas - when you read back over what you've written you see all sorts of interesting connections that you wouldn't have consciously thought of - and I generally find that a glass of wine gets the juices flowing as well, but it's rare that I'll use anything I get out of it.

 

I know what you mean, I used to do this style of writing in my 20's and enjoy it, but as I get older I tend to try and focus and analyze what I write. I will probably go back to this style of writing as senility sets in with old age, though. Can't wait.

 

Whether you like it or not?

I find I'm if anything more playful when I'm just writing gibberish. I tend to put in obscure references, or do "backronyms" of words from Hebrew mysticism, just because I can.

 

At the moment I've put all creative writing on hold, because of duty. I'll have to admit, I hate bloodshed and can't wait for this conflict to end. So far, I've had no choice but to kill the enemy. I've also seen many of my fellows killed in combat and I have sustained my share of injury (nothing that couldn't be saved though). For the last couple of months, I've been surrounded by hatred and violence, so please excuse me if you find some of my commentary inhospitable. I'm actually worried that I am becoming immune to my feelings and that this war has taken its toil on my compassion. Anyway, I know it will be over soon. I've finished the first two Medal Of Honors and I'm just stuck on that section with the mortars in the farm house and the German tanks advancing. I'm shit with mortars, but I don't want to use a cheat code. Why do they make these games so bloody hard?

 

Uh.....will you father my children?

Anyway. I've recently started keeping a journal which I only write in while flyin' high. A lot of it doesn't make much sense, but freewriting anything adn everything that comes to mind does dig up a lot of useful things that can be refined for use in more coherent works. I'm hoping my journal will help me out of some recent creative stagnation.