Not all of my writing is perfect. I know, *gasp*! But in all honesty, it isn’t. The biggest culprit? Laziness. I have written a few lazy posts. The idea was there, the execution just wasn’t up to par. Yesterday’s task from problogger was to breathe life into an old post – to fix it up and make it better. It would have been done yesterday, but I traded blogging for spending the entire day with my hubby and our families. A much better choice I thought 
Anyway, the goal of breathing life into an old post is to correct errors, improve on the writing, and beef up the research. I chose to work on a post that I wrote about doing things, rather than just waiting for things to happen (click for the original post). The post has a good basic idea, but wasn’t well thought out. I talk about the easiest and the hardest parts of creativity, but not many details on it. The title is boring and the sentence structure could use some work. I could have also done a bit more research and shared some good links. After re-reading the post and making some much needed changes, here is the new version:
Is creativity easy or hard?
Creativity requires effort, it requires time and patience, and it requires doing something. Creativity is a double edged sword. It can be easy and it can be difficult (and often can be both at the same time). Let’s take a look at both sides of creativity by answering a couple questions:
1) What’s the hardest part about creativity for you?
2) What’s the easiest part about creativity for you?
I’ll go first:
1) Getting started is the hardest. How many times have you wanted to write but haven’t been able to come up with an idea? It is often difficult to get motivation staring at a blank page. A blank page is unforgiving. It stares back at you, daring you to type that first word or put in the first picture. It’s just waiting to see what you do so it can tell you it doesn’t work.
2) Getting started is the easiest. On the other side, sometimes the easiest way to be creative is to have the complete freedom of a blank slate. For example, re-writing this post is difficult because I am trying to keep some of the original text in it. If I could just delete the entire thing and start from a clean slate, it would be much easier. There would be nothing to contend with, no structure I had to try to keep. I could just let my creativity flow.
The moral of the story is creativity can’t exist if you do nothing. Whether you are working from a clean slate or an already created design, just do something with it. Do something, anything, and creativity will follow.
Share your thoughts, what are the hardest and easiest parts of creativity? Do you believe creativity can come just from making yourself start or continue the task?
What do you think of the new post? Did I improve it, or just change the words? What can you do to improve some of your past writing or do you think you should just leave the past posts alone?
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Kirsten
