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Those moments of getting lost in your art, where nothing else matters. Whether it be music, painting, the written word - or simply how you arrange your living environment.

Where does that space of creation come from for you?

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Choral music is my passion, and I would have to say that I reach that place any time I am performing as part of a choir. Something about a strong chord or perfect harmony is just so powerful.

I'm an orchestral clarinettist, so I really feel like I'm in that space when my colleagues are also there with me - when the orchestra is focused and playing at their best, I really feel like we're making something extraordinary. That's when I feel at my best, and like the music is just going through me and my clarinet, and I'm lucky enough to have extremely talented musicians all around me to fill the space left by what I've given.
I just realized how difficult this is to put into words!! Wow! :)

Mine comes from my soul, that's the only way I can describe it. It comes from deep with in, it is an undeniable urge that will not go away until it is out. My form of creativity is fabric art and once I get an image in my head it keeps interrupting my thoughts until I finish the creation. Sometimes it comes to me in dreams, I wake up with a vision in my head. It does not work if I sit down and think, "Ok, let's create something." I can plant a seed of an idea but it seems like the seed has to incubate for a bit before I can begin a project. Once the idea is there, however, it is vibrant and compelling, never drudgery to complete.

It comes from the need to have something come through me, sounds strange but hear me out. So much information is coming in, via email, tv, internet, magazines, advertising, cell phones, FB, other people's opinions, etc so it is out of the ordinary to be creating something instead of consuming something. The act of creation is one of my ways processing what is going on in my life and in the world.

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I usually only get to that place after I've smoked a bit. I put my music on, and then everything else disappears and I can write for hours.

I get inspired by nature (I'm a floral designer), dance, or problem solving (I'm a former teacher.) I get really engrossed in things where I feel like I have a real shot at making someone happy or empowering someone. I also get engrossed in writing, but only when I feel the need to get something off my chest.

Trial and error. Listening to other people's music. Noticing no music is quite the way I'd like it to be. Then start playing with that general sense of dissatisfaction.

haha, pretty recently I got so lost in a project it was Sunday and I thought it was Friday. I mean I REEAALY had no idea how that happened. No stimulants of any kind except coffee.

Temorrow, thanks for the question! Once I had a truly transcendent moment while writing my third novel, Saving Elijah. I had been struggling with plot and one inexplicable character. Suddenly I felt as if time had slowed to a virtual crawl. I could hear the ticking of the clock, see every corner of my office and item on my desk, and then all at once I felt as if I had separated from my body, moved beyond my my surroundings, and yet I was still sitting there inside my body and my own consciousness, but also looking at myself from outside my body and consciousness, and even from inside and outside every other consciousness in the universe that exists, has existed, or will exist. A feeling of complete calm and knowing came upon me. It was as if I had transcended the boundary of my own ego and achieved God consciousness. Some might say I was having a breakdown. Yet that was the moment when the plot of my novel emerged, when I realized what the character was doing there. From then on, it was as if I was channeling both him and his dialogue, as if I were almost recording something that already existed in the universe. My skeptical mind fights against this idea, but usually loses. This happened. This act of creation also served a healing function for me, helped me move forward in my life after a truly terrible trauma, the one I was attempting to write about. My answer is that the drive to create and the drive to heal come from the same place, and both exist inside us and outside us, in the universe." (And by the way that picture is gross, but it certainly does draw the attention!)

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Choral music is my passion, and I would have to say that I reach that place any time I am performing as part of a choir. Something about a strong chord or perfect harmony is just so powerful.

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I usually only get to that place after I've smoked a bit. I put my music on, and then everything else disappears and I can write for hours.

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Choral music is my passion, and I would have to say that I reach that place any time I am performing as part of a choir. Something about a strong chord or perfect harmony is just so powerful.

I usually only get to that place after I've smoked a bit. I put my music on, and then everything else disappears and I can write for hours.

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