Creative Genius
This will be the first entry in a journal for my MA class Explorations in Creativity with Dr. Nisha Gupta. It is designed to document our journey each week: the activity, how it ties in with what we're learning about, our experience of it, etc. Because it is our first week, there were no readings associated yet. We were asked to write a short, cinematic description of a time when we had experienced a sense of creative genius. - I was immediately concerned: had I ever experienced this? What were moments in which I had been creative and felt really proud of what I had done/made? Of the moments that came to mind, they all had one concept in common: I had created a story for my kids. - Not as in we sat down and I told them a story before bed, but as in I created some piece of their imaginary world. I chose to share the story of the tooth faerie, of my 2nd born son's sincere attachment to this charact...