Playing Off the Ball
One thing that I've gotten increasingly better at, which consequently has raised its importance in my mind is "playing off the ball." What I mean by this is that I now do a lot of writing when I'm not actually sitting in front of the computer typing. It's mainly about keeping my brain active creatively - sometimes by reading, being perceptive - so that I have a general openness to ideas when and if they come. This allows me to accomplish a lot, in a better, less pressurized way I think, when it seems like I'm not really doing anything at all. What happens then is that I end up building concepts and scenes and themes and characters naturally over the course of several days; nothing is forced.
And "Happy Thanksgiving" to the 8 or 9 spammers who are reading this.
I woke up about an hour and fifteen minutes ago and, for some unknown reason, I had it in my head that I needed to post about Cleveland post-hip-hop artist Kid Cudi. The image above is from his single "Day-N-Nite" which is avail on iTunes. More info @ www.kidcudi.com He's signed to G.O.O.D. music, Kanye's label and makes a couple of appearances on 808's & Heartbreak.
