Of buliding high expectations

Creative writing, I have always believed is all about timing. And twitter has more than validated the hypothesis. Allow me to explain.

I am an inherently creative person and still somehow I am not very prolific at producing blog entries. One blog post a month just about borders a respectable average. Not to mention that the averaging period is chosen carefully to hide an immensely abysmal performance in the last one year (statistics, lies what is the difference !) . What can be a plausible reason? The Freudian will jump at the naive conclusion that I am deceiving myself - 'has anyone ever complimented you on your creativity, let alone creative writing'! Caution, don't be tempted to accept the simplest explanation (Screw Occam and his rusty razor). So what is the truth.

The truth is that the shelf life of an original idea does not extend beyond a few minutes, seconds in case you awake with a start from the spark of the idea (the latter one is very tricky, not because of 'false awakening' but on account of logistical problems like groping for a pen and paper in complete darkness of night). And therefore, you are more likely to preserve the idea in a scribblar form or worse forget about it than write about it. To conclude, creative writing is all about timing - you should be in a mood to write about an idea or you will never look at it again.

And how exactly has twitter validated the theory? Well it hasn't so far :D It will, in case I start tweeting big time !