That's Not Creative... Is It?

My noticeable lack of blog posts over the last couple of weeks has been due mostly to the fact that I've been so busy lately that I haven't had the time to sit down and write anything. But, I am about to fix that. And, appropriately enough, I'll be talking about the things that got in my way over the last couple of weeks, preventing me from being creative. That is, they could have prevented me from being creative.

First of all, most of the things I was working on were actually creative projects for all the various podcasts that I do, but there were still things that had to be done that weren't even close to being artistic. Those were mostly high school related projects. Yes, I started my Junior year this week. Yes, I'm taking as many artistic oriented classes as I can (Creative writing, graphic design, etc.) But I still have to take things like history and biology. Not much there that gets the creative juices flowing. Unless you do what I did, and infuse your everyday, boring projects with some creativity.

Here's a good example of what I'm talking about: I was reading about the Revolutionary War (For about the thousandth time... I get it already!) and my homework was to create a chart with actions the British took, and ways the Americans reacted. So what did I do? I quickly wrote one sentence actions and reactions, then spent the rest of my time listening to music and designing a colorful, interestingly laid out chart. Doing this with all of my schoolwork, as well as any other boring but necessary task, really helps keep me sane.

The best part is, you can do this with just about anything - Except for math, I never figured out how to make that one creative. Fortunately I'm not taking math this year (Woo-hoo!) but if any of you have some ideas on how to make math - or any other project you dislike - creative, let me know in the comments below. Now that I've successfully given almost everything I do a creative spin, I'm not only happier, but I find I get finished with my projects faster and my work usually gets more attention because it's, well... pretty. And with all my new free time, I'll be writing posts for the Artistic Universe way more often, I promise.