I am proud to announce the lukehoughton.com creative project of the week. Rather than suffering for my art (which I think is an appalling concept) I have decided to post a creative project each week to my blog. I would say day but I just don’t have that much creative energy. Those of us who have creative ability yet no means to support it that other than side business and work have this on-going internal conflict where we know we should do something but usually sit on our bums (or asses) and do nothing. I think we could easily overthrow the publishing industry for example, if we really wanted to do but we think the world should come to us.
Well I can’t wait any longer. I have ideas and almost nobody to share them with so I have to let it out. I am therefore proud to announce my ‘commitment to creativity‘ project. In order to fester that inner creativity I have I am going to post something I do each week that is deliberately creative. I am also working on making a website for daily submissions for people who are creative minded as well. The problem is getting the funding and finding the time. What a bugger! There is also the other problem of offering the project to people and having them commit their intellectual property with no foreseeable way of financial return. I am working on it as I have said so hang on to your hats for that one. It will be a cracker.
For now I am trialling my own stuff to see what I can achieve. There is no bigger fool than a hypocrite I heard somewhere. That and we must practice what we preach if we are to be considered credible. If I am telling anybody who reads this to be creative then I must first lead by example. If I don’t then all I am doing is making it up and that is a crock! So in order to be a real person I have decided to unleash my own creativity on my small readership one week, day or minute at a time. I have put the time limit of ‘one week on it’ but it will be sooner but NO LATER than that. Why? Well I keep saying I will do this or I will do that and never got around it. So I have just decided to do it.
In order to begin the festivities I have included in my fiction tab The Woman in the River. This is short story I wrote for a woman’s magazine that the bastards didn’t publish! So, my commitment to being creative begins. I am now without excuse. I am not being paid so it’s not for money it’s for the pure exercise of being me and being creative. Enjoy. If you like it give it as many people you can so we can get a community going around this thing. We could start a revolution of creativity and destroy the world! Okay, so maybe that’s a bit excessive. I hope you enjoy it anyway.
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