Radvent Day 8: Creating

Choose an object to symbolize your creativity and put it in a place you can see it every day.

Have you ever astonished yourself by what you created? What did you learn from it?

Rubik's cube. It has many colors just as creativity has many facets in it's creation.

Yes, I have astonished myself by what I created. Aside from the story I wrote in the 90's which was astonishing because of some of it's grossness, it was supposed to be kind of like Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, so that wasn't really astonishing.

My NaNo novel of 2007 (I think that was the year) was 200K, but what was astonishing was the last 50K and how sickening it really was. After I wrote it, I was like "Man, you're one sick mother ". I learned that I had lots of demons inside me. Figuratively speaking, of course.

On the positive side, the novel I wrote the year before that one, was perfect. Aside from the typos or maybe a few plot holes or maybe even paragraphing or some sentence structure problems, I loved it. It did exactly what I wanted it to do. Before then MJ and I broke up and that's what the novel was about. It was loosely based on my life. What I learned from it, was that I could create something that solid. The only problem is that book is too personal to actually have someone beta read. Nearly everything that happens in that book has happened to me. MJ loved it too which I'm happy about because it's the best one I've done I think.