[Victoria Champion]

Immersed in writing my new dark fantasy/horror book, I am perplexed how to describe to others this wonderful feeling I have. It's soft and delicious like sweet ice cream, yet energizing like a hike in the wilderness. It's creepy like watching a scary movie alone at night, yet refreshing like a cool breeze on a spring day (okay maybe that's my open window). Why is it so hard to describe the feeling of creativity? Maybe it's like the feeling of first love, over and over again? Every word is a first kiss?

How does creativity make you feel?

 

[Mathew Reuther]

Whole.

 

[A.A]

Like all the voices in my head finally get to have their say.

Victoria, as I'm also writing a dark fantasy/horror book at the moment, I get what you're saying about the creepy deliciousness. I'm loving it

 

[Anotherdreamer]

It feels like passion.

 

[RoseInTheTardis]

Like I'm outside myself. I'm easily distracted in normal life but when I'm in creative-writing-plotting mode I might as well be on another planet. Often it feels like I am.

There's also a feeling of satisfaction I get when I finish a very tense (or intense, or both) scene. Kind of like a hug from the universe.

For a writer, I suck at describing things sometimes.

 

[Kalen ODonnell]

For me it feels like fleas.  I can't stop itching and scratching until I get the idea out.  Or you know, kill it.

Am I doing it wrong?

 

[burke_KB]

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.”

George Orwell

I always liked the bit about the 'demon one could neither resist nor understand.'

 

[S. Shine]

Like everything falling into place and all you have to do is write it down exactly the way it comes to you.

 

[Ignis_Designs]

I am not a writer, but the feeling I get is akin to quiet... If that makes sense... All the voices finally stop because they're being listened to.

 

[John H. Carroll]

I wondered much the same thing. I wrote a post about it that asks if other artists feel the same way. It relates to the question: http://ryallon.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-this-what-its-like-for-other-artists.html

 

[Janet Michelson]

The Flow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi