| There's something seductive and intoxicating about | | | | of any real creative potential. |
| being a creative butterfly - those gorgeous flashing | | | | But what if you have chosen - what if you already |
| wings that flit from beautiful flower to beautiful | | | | know that you are a potter, a singer/songwriter, a |
| flower - the constant heady sipping of nectar and | | | | painter, a mixed media artist, photographer (I'm just |
| the basking in the warm sun with wings ablaze for all | | | | giving examples here - I don't mean all of them in |
| to see. I don't know if there's a creative butterfly in | | | | one person. On the other hand, if you are that |
| all of us, but there certainly is in me. And left to its | | | | person - respect!) |
| own devices, left in control, it can be a very | | | | Creative butterflyism is still an important factor, and |
| damaging creature. | | | | not necessarily a negative one. Without doubt it can |
| For people at the very beginning of their creative | | | | be a powerful positive force. It is after all, that part |
| journey, butterflyism can actually stop them ever | | | | of you that is attracted to new ideas and ways of |
| getting started in the first place. When you are | | | | doing things. It's drawn to all the most novel and |
| equally attracted by so many different flowers, it | | | | innovative flowers, and because of that it can bring a |
| becomes difficult to properly settle on any. Choosing | | | | constant freshness to your work. |
| becomes near impossible as the fear of what may | | | | But - if you want depth to your work, if you want |
| be lost overcomes the potential of what's there to | | | | to get more than a transitory satisfaction from your |
| be gained. | | | | creative process, and if you want to get your work |
| If you are fortunate enough to be drawn to just one | | | | noticed, you need more in your creative armoury |
| or two ways of expressing yourself then spare a | | | | than the butterfly can offer. |
| thought for this kind of butterfly. Without help they | | | | Read my next article, Achieve Artistic Success with |
| may never choose, caught either in total inaction or a | | | | Courageous Creativity, to learn more. |
| multi-facetted dilettante-ism that's a guaranteed killer | | | | |