Of particular note was the idea that creative outputs exist as separate entities waiting for an outlet—a human—to make them tangible. (There's also a whole lot of stuff about those ideas being demanding, and that they will assail us when it suits them—but you'll have to listen to the podcast to get all that.)
On listening, I was gently scornful. It seemed too nice an idea, and one that divested us all too easily of our own responsibility in the creative process. But then how do you explain times that produce good work, work you don't ask for, and can't replicate at other times? Nights like this. When the produce looks like that:
This is a description of a country. And a key character. And a collective attitude. I'd give you more, but Jesus, I just started the thing, okay? There's a plot and some characters and other bits and pieces. Also, a beginning.The point, really, is just that this isn't what I was hoping for when I pulled up the covers and turned out the light. Nothing like it.
*Extra-weird, because recently I overheard a friend say he thought humans had evolved to use drugs, at which I thought, "look around, people—we've evolved to create."
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