Technique and Creativity

I’m not much of a sports person, at least when it comes to stick-and-ball sports, but I did catch the Super Bowl, and I try to catch as much of the Winter Olympics that I can. Being more of the creative type, I tend to gravitate towards things that utilize creativity. However, in most of my endeavors, I’ve made it a point to learn fundamental techniques before trying to be creative and unorthodox. With a lot of these sports, seeing them played at the highest level, I get to see one if not both (creativity and technique) utilized at its peak.

Creative writing and trying to become an author has been a process of technique and creativity. I feel that I received some level of fundamental writing from writing so many essays in college, and it helps that I’ve always liked grammar. However, as I’ve stated in another blog post, it really has hindered my ability to go to that next level of creativity, as it’s just recently where I’ve learned about things like “voice,” for example.

I’m really hoping that I can reach a point where I can put it all together. Fundamental technique, in writing, seems to be more of a tangible thing where it’s about sentence construction and grammar. The creative part of it is much more difficult though, where it’s not so concrete. Writing primarily fantasy, it’s all about creativity, and also how one presents it as well.