Impediment to Creativity.

Professional writers and those who profess to be good at writing devote substantial amount of time to researching what they write.  They also confess to needing private time and quiet when they write.

When I decided to semi-retire and to seek self-employment, I went back to creative writing which is my first love and my very first source of income upon graduation from university studies.

Writing in itself is a creative adventure. There are the journalists, fiction and non-fiction writers, technical writers, creative writers such as copywriters, screen, radio and television scriptwriters, speech or ghost writers, and column writers and opinion writers.

I used to write copy or adverstisements for a PR and ad agency.

Now, I do mostly blog writing or private work.

Having just arrived from a two-month travel in Canada and the U.S.A, I am still experiencing jet lag - including creative lag.  My mind is pointless - err... I cannot pinpoint the exact beginning or end of a topic, and I think it is due to the heat wave going on.

When I'm out of the air conditioned bedroom and infront of the computer in the living room, it is not creative juice that is flowing out of me, but sweat.

When I write, I want to be by myself - thus, I tend to write late in the evening or early morning.  If there are people snooping around, I tend to clam in.  

I remember years and years ago when my boss would call for a brainstorming session to kick start an ad campaign for a client and the team members would remain silent. My boss would then light a cigar (smoking was still allowed in buildings and offices then) and start to whistle.  Then we would catch up with his good mood, and everyone would ease up and the ball would start to roll.

During brainstorming sessions, general concepts are formulated, but it is in the privacy of offices that creative writers develop the actual copy or ad - print, radio and TV.

If people around would just understand that certain people function best when they are left alone, life would be much easier...for writers.