The Path of Creativity

Questions

1. Has creativity ever gotten you in trouble?

2. Has creativity ever healed or saved you?

3. Were you a child that colored in the lines or outside of them? Does that childhood self still have a leading role in your life?

4. Aren’t you hungry to color outside the lines? Hasn’t your life stayed safely “inside the lines” long enough?

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that two things prevent most of us from creative living: fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one’s own consistency. Might either of those be true of you?

6. If your life was a song or movie, which song or movie would you be?

7. Are you as “creatively maladjusted” as you imagined you would be?

8. If you were told you could magically recreate one aspect of your life, what part would you pick?

9. Has anyone ever reacted to your creativity as a threat?

10. Could that restless or sour feeling in your gut be your unused creativity?

11. Does your muse act more like a fairy offering you sweet gifts or a wasp trying to sting you into action?

12. Which artistic metaphor best describes what life feels like to you right now? a blank canvas? a 1000-piece puzzle? a detective novel? a garden? a writer’s block? a work in progress? Something else?