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s, you can’t rush creativity.</figcaption></figure><p id="71a2">To claim otherwise is to deny the depth, power and transcendental nature of the work.</p><p id="4520">Acknowledge that I have invited you into the house of my soul.</p><figure id="8fe7"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*cr6rWGtUSV_yYBEe-tOumg.jpeg"><figcaption>Copenhagen Lakes</figcaption></figure><p id="c970">Handle the treasures that I show you with care.</p><figure id="663c"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*b_XkjhtTkQNPV0PlVhw_3Q.jpeg"><figcaption>Oslo harbour</figcaption></figure><p id="6223">These are my pearls; I am not suggesting that they be displayed at a high-end jewellers.</p><figure id="2baf"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*EchBmQ18kqKeZ0jSw13iIA.jpeg"><figcaption>Oslo harbour</figcaption></figure><p id="b03b">All I ask is that you acknowledge my treasure when I invite you in.</p><figure id="03e1"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*2aOsMCFHoJDRXw1uNGUuoA.jpeg"><figcaption>Norwegian seagull</figcaption></figure><p id="9126">The pearl may not be round and “perfect” but is a pearl born of a grain of sand that lodged in me and caused me pain until I grew the pearl around it to relieve the irritation.</p><figure id="9e47"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*GN19VxAWDmLj7EO6_uCiPw.jpeg"><figcaption>All aboard for the return trip to Copenhagen.</figcaption></figure><p id="4435">Please listen carefully to the subtext and avoid this demeaning C-word.</p><figure id="db63"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*IupHw8imOFMvb8ceYFjedQ.jpeg"><figcaption>The view from Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo, Norway</figcaption></figure><h1 id="b9c4">Content</h1><p id="e02e"><i>All my own photos</i></p><p id="86bf">Here is a supplementary comment by <a href="undefined">Laurie Swenson</a> that contributed a great deal of value:</p><div id="b39a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/m-edward-theres-a-difference-between-what-is-now-deemed-content-and-personal-writing-ce6aa6e7abb3"> <div> <div> <h2>M Edward, there’s a difference between what is now deemed “content” and personal writing.</h2> <div><h3>As far as what to call content, I’d probably stay away from the word if you’re producing good copy (I had to backspace over “content,” the…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/)"></div> </div>

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Stop Using the C-Word to Describe My Writing.

It denies the Elusive Ephemerality of my Spirit

Copenhagen lakes, summer 2016

When I write, I send a pail deep down into the well, plumbing the artesian depths.

Gefion statue, Langelinie, Copenhagen

I quiet my body, I sit completely still and I wait for the spirit to move me.

I reach back into my past for you. I dust off near-forgotten memories and share who I am with you. I reflect and watch the shapes inside me shimmer and coalesce. Then I try to tell you about them.

Near the lake pavillon Copenhagen.

To treat my work and that of my fellow writers as “filling” for empty columns or as anything other than the glorious exotic fruit grown in the fertile soil of our imagination is an insult.

Frederiksberg Gardens, Denmark

Using the c-word to describe my writing has connotations of grey homogenous sludge gushing out of a firehose and compensated for at a fraction of its real value.

The implicitness of this mendacity is grossly demeaning.

A Stuffed animal I snapped in a shop window in Oslo

Writing, illustrating and making videos, to take three ubiquitous examples, are more like the blossoms of an immense orchard garden with trees, shrubs, bushes and flowers.

Exotic summer fruits, left, lily, right.

Creativity is precious and magical. It can neither be harnessed, dictated to nor rushed.

Like the process of petrification of these stones, you can’t rush creativity.

To claim otherwise is to deny the depth, power and transcendental nature of the work.

Acknowledge that I have invited you into the house of my soul.

Copenhagen Lakes

Handle the treasures that I show you with care.

Oslo harbour

These are my pearls; I am not suggesting that they be displayed at a high-end jewellers.

Oslo harbour

All I ask is that you acknowledge my treasure when I invite you in.

Norwegian seagull

The pearl may not be round and “perfect” but is a pearl born of a grain of sand that lodged in me and caused me pain until I grew the pearl around it to relieve the irritation.

All aboard for the return trip to Copenhagen.

Please listen carefully to the subtext and avoid this demeaning C-word.

The view from Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo, Norway

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All my own photos

Here is a supplementary comment by Laurie Swenson that contributed a great deal of value:

Thank you to the 624 people who have viewed this story, the 327 people who’ve read it and the 52 people who’ve recommended it. I appreciate you all very much.

Update 28 Feb 2017

I found this wonderful quote from Ben Belser’s article:

Here’s a tip: if you use the word “content” when referring to works of creativity, you’re probably not creative, and your view on originality is likely to be deeply flawed. That word perfectly symbolizes the evil — and I mean it when I say evil — that pervades the Internet today: a reductive, dehumanizing, overly dispassionate view on authorship that sees art products as little more than data points swimming in a sea of other data points

Here’s a link:

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