Thoraiya DyerCreativity and the Sport of Writing
November 28th 2006 13:03
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It's impossible to forget this little story I read a few years ago in the college library:
During World War I, when Harrigan was in France, his wife wrote to him. "There isn't an able-bodied man left in Ireland, and I'm gonna have to dig up the garden myself."
Harrigan wrote back, "Don't dig up the garden. That's where the guns are."
The letter was censored and soldiers came back to the house and dug up every square foot of the garden.
"I don't know what to do, " wrote Mrs. Harrigan to her husband. "Soldiers came up and dug the garden."
Harrigan wrote back, "Now plant the potatoes."
Creativity is one area of thinking that computers have not invaded, according to scientists. That's one area in my life I wouldn't want to give away either.
But writing has become a sport and so many writers have been dragged into the race track. It actually begs the question: does competition really destroy creativity?
It's impossible to forget this little story I read a few years ago in the college library:
During World War I, when Harrigan was in France, his wife wrote to him. "There isn't an able-bodied man left in Ireland, and I'm gonna have to dig up the garden myself."
Harrigan wrote back, "Don't dig up the garden. That's where the guns are."
The letter was censored and soldiers came back to the house and dug up every square foot of the garden.
"I don't know what to do, " wrote Mrs. Harrigan to her husband. "Soldiers came up and dug the garden."
Harrigan wrote back, "Now plant the potatoes."
Creativity is one area of thinking that computers have not invaded, according to scientists. That's one area in my life I wouldn't want to give away either.
But writing has become a sport and so many writers have been dragged into the race track. It actually begs the question: does competition really destroy creativity?
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