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RE: Divine Intervention - Finish the Story Contest, WEEK 20
I think creative energy is a gift. You obviously have it. A few times in my writing career I have felt that surge. It's like a high. You don't need to tame it, ever--why would you? But you will learn to be in command of it. That's what I hope your writing teacher was saying. Have fun writing--that's part of the gift :)
Yes you are right about creative energy. I did imaginative writing in university and consider myself a career writer at this point. I think you've also hit the nail on the head that my tutor was just trying to guide us all toward that perfect balance between creativity and craft. To take a hold of inspiration and shape it, rather than letting it shape what you're writing. I just used to try to wind him up is all. It is a particularly British trait and especially the part of the country I'm from, we're always taking the mick ;-)
:) :)