Suggestions to students (and others who wish to practice creative endeavors):
  • Nourish your creative spirit, a task that is easier to suggest than it will be to implement.
  • Take time out of your too busy schedule and create every day--write, paint, whatever feeds your creative spirit.
  • Keep a journal. You will be able to look back on your life and appreciate the journey AND you can share it with your grandchildren.
  • Draw...anything.
  • Take your camera and walk around campus or Schmeeckle Reserve, looking for (and shooting) pictures.
  • Snap photos of your friends. Snap a LOT of photos. Someday, you’ll be glad that you did.
  • If you have a camcorder, shoot every day just to get better at it. For that matter, whatever your creative tools, use them every day just to get better.
  • Renowned documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock suggests three things you can do to jump start your career in media production. They are: (1) start young; (2) look and look and look; and (3) shoot and shoot and shoot.
  • Socrates (469-399 B.C.) said that “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
  • I say “The uncreative life is not worth living.”