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Multiple creative personalities

1/4/2017

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Do you ever leap from one creative idea and project to the next? I do. Perhaps everybody does. I suppose you can say I'm just leaping from project to project but really I feel like I have multiple creative personalities. For instance, some days I want to spend hours cooking and somedays I don't want to go near the kitchen. Here are a  few of my creative personalities and what they're working on:
  • Author: finishing a novel; writing picture books
  • Playwright: (writing a play is just not the same as authoring a book so this is a separate creative personality) three plays for children to perform in editing stage; five plays for speech therapists in the works; one musical circling my brain; one monologue written today.
  • Director: (of plays) I'll be directing a Shakespeare play starting in March; directing a couple of children's shows in the summer.
  • Mime: coming up with fun skits, teaching, directing
  • Songwriter: (again, this is different than the other kinds of writing) I have three songs per script in the above mentioned three plays for children that need to be notated; a spiritual song written on various pieces of paper.
  • Cake Decorator: I loved my cake classes and I love coming up with decorations on cakes. (I just have to pick cake decorating days)
  • Chef: This is for everything else besides cakes. I follow recipes. I invent recipes. Healthy foods. Desserts. It just makes the house smell good. And I have fun doing it.
  • Seamstress: I have a dress I'm building by using a store-bought dress as the pattern.
  • Quilting: currently, I'm buiilding the blocks. Yes, it's sewing but different in my mind than just sewing clothes.
  • Cross stitch: I have a lovely scene I'm working on. I'll start a fantasy scene after that.
  • Gamewright: This is a new one for me but I'm enjoying creating a game from an idea that grew from the book Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn.
  • Artist: drawing; coloring; experimenting with different mediums.
  • Sculpter: just using oven-baked clay, such as Sculpty or Fimo clay. I love the miniatures I make, usually because I'm so surprised they worked out. 
  • Papercutting: love figuring out just the right cuts to make.
Maybe it's just too many multiple creative personalities, though I doubt any of them--along with their projects--are going to disappear anytime soon. 
Or maybe I just can't focus!
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    I love stories! I love to read fairy tales, fables, stories from around the world. I especially love scifi and fantasy. And I like to write. And watch movies. And play board games. And do theatre things.

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Marian Scadden, author of stage plays, fiction for young people, and other stuff