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Healthy Creatives Are Never Not In Process

Creativity is as much about a continuous process as it is a finished artifact. Chances are, as you read this, you are thinking, sketching, reflecting, creating, exploring or fine-tuning something.

As any creative will attest, we’re just “drawn” that way. Healthy creatives are never not in process.

Process is a systematic series of actions directed to an end. But for a creative, the journey is just as important, if not moreso, as the destination.

Hopefully, you have the good fortune to be among a rare group of people who do what they are for a living.

If so, now, back to it!!

If not, why?

But, wait, before you go, a question.

What is one of the vital aspects of your creative process?

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8 responses to “Healthy Creatives Are Never Not In Process”

  1. Lola T Avatar
    Lola T

    I’m envious. I don’t have creativity in my body. How I wish i have that kind of talent.

    1. Keith Jennings Avatar

      Lola, you created that comment!

      Creativity is simply connecting & sharing things. You can do it with words, pictures, sounds, sticks, stones…doesn’t matter. As long as you are connecting things, you are creating. Even if only in your mind.

      And talent is overrated. Some of the world’s greatest artists were not naturally good at what they became celebrated for. They became great because they had to work really hard to overcome their natural weaknesses. But their weaknesses turned out to be their strengths. (Which is something God seems to get a kick out of helping us do.)

  2. Deanna Avatar

    Growing up, I never really thought I had the gift of creativity – I thought I just had the gift of appreciating the artistic gifts of others. But I’ve learned that I’m a creative in the sense of ideas and (now) writing.

    So I’m learning to take my creative ideas seriously. Of course, all my ideas aren’t great, but I’m starting to believe that some of them are worth putting on paper, pondering and prayer!

    1. Randy Elrod Avatar

      Deanna, I love it!! I really feel everyone is creative! I’m so glad you are embracing yours!

  3. Keith Jennings Avatar

    What is one of the vital aspects of your creative process?

    I work from a belief that things are not what they appear to be. Which feeds an insatiable curiosity that propels my thinking, research, writing, etc.

    Said another way, I’m always trying to find the wizard’s curtain in Oz, because the little man behind it is always more interesting than the image he projects.

    1. Randy Elrod Avatar

      I love this, Keith. “I work from a belief that things are not what they appear to be. Which feeds an insatiable curiosity that propels my thinking, research, writing, etc.”

  4. Randy Elrod Avatar

    I love this, Joel. Many hats. I especially relate to your statement “Creative leading authentically by taking others along the process with me and showing them that brokenness is merely a strength that shows Christ working in our lives better.”

    Thanks for joining the conversation.

  5. klampert Avatar

    Over the years I have been creative in many ways… as an illustrator, a writer, a leader, a husband, a father… etc..
    It seems to me that the process or even the end result are different for each of my hats…

    Sometimes I am very creative as an artist with a cup of tea, my desk and pen and ink with just Mozart’s requiem playing loudly

    Other times I am creative writing through the Chaos of my life

    Creative leading authentically by taking others along the process with me and showing them that brokenness is merely a strength that shows Christ working in our lives better

    Creative in keeping my marriage alive and well and trying to be a better dad..

    For me being a creative is about the process and while it takes different shapes ultimately a FINSHED product really gets me excited as well… I have way too many “processed” dreams sitting on a shelf because I never finished them.

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