Vinci eLearning

Vinci Elearning is a creative music learning site. I will be sharing the process of using information creatively to teach music and to write music compositions. I also am a teacher-author, musician, and composer writing in multiple styles.  Variety is the spice of life and so it is for being a creative person. 

Creativity Flows! 

How to keep the flow going? Keep swimming.  That is the only way to go.  The goal is to never let your river dry up.   keeping your thoughts pure, learning ongoing, and constantly being driven to create.  If you take a long break, then it is best to first purity of thought (no wasteful or negative thinking or judgement), study and then quickly do.  The key for creativity is the doing and for sure not the thinking.  Creative thinking means that you are not really being creative, but trying to find how to be creative by critical thinking.  We are not trying to figure out a mathematical formula so therefore, it is about flow or following your instincts.   We all have instincts if we listen to them in the first place.  Listen to your hunches and impressions, you will discover that you can develop these abilities and be a creative person through actions.  

The key to output is frequency.  Frequency or consistent action is how you develop your creative flow.  By being aware of your creative process, you can maneuver into a style that works for you.  We all are wired differently.  Some people are creative in the morning while others are in the evening.  You constantly need to be listening from the inside out to understand your style of creating.  We all can more than likely create anytime but finding your sweet spot is your secret weapon to the output of creativity. 

My example of creative growth.  Once I discovered templates and  favorite arrangements, my flow boosted and my lyric writing has become organic. I have learned that songs are a conversation.  Talking with rhyming.  So, now, every time I end a sentence in conversation, I think of rhyming words besides the easy one syllable rhyming words. Lyrics to me have become a conversation with myself imagining there is someone in front of me that I am talking to.  Above my computer, I have a picture of the point of light which is the spiritual aspect that I believe the flow will always be there because it is being fueled by a power beyond our understanding that makes the night turn to day, and the cycle of the seasons.  It is magical if spiritual is too controversial.  Creative is using your magic to create what can benefit many.  Be a creator, and see where it goes!

Getting Started in writing in any creative area can bring on a writer's block experience.  A writer's block is the lack of making a connection to what you want to write or create.  Having a goal in mind makes a huge difference.  

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Writing is just like driving a car or if under the age, a bicycle.  If you get on your bike or drive a  car you have to know where you are headed.  The same is true for writing a paper, book, script, song, or a musical composition.  You have to know where you are going.  What do you want to say in your creative endeavor?  Think of a film.  It has a story, the beginning, the middle, and the ending.  I find music to hold similar correlations.  Mindmapping is useful when you decide upon the theme.  Mindmapping is a form of brainstorming so that means you can change your mind in the writing process not upholding to any idea as though it was written in stone.  Creativity is flexibility.  You have to be flexible in the creation of any work.