TED BODRUM COLLEGE / 10-B
The Creation of Creating
Melek Güneş Özbelen
The distinctive trait of humans ; creation . The act of making , of creating ; of reading and writing and painting and composing . From our beginning , moving ever rapidly to our end , we have been creating . Creation , in its nature a very raw and vicious concept , has evolved into a spiritual process ; the process of turning the muse into a subject . Then , what drives us to take action ? What makes us do these things ?
Within the very concept of art and creative fields in general , there is a starting point ; whether one is a writer or an entrepreneur or a painter , one starts with nothing . To transform that nothingness into anything at all , the key element of the creative experience is required ; inspiration . It is debatable whether or not inspiration is something to chase or something to be chased by , but it is clear that it is essential . In his movie The French Dispatch , director and screenwriter Wes Anderson carries out a story of different writers writing for the same magazine . Each writer finds their own muse , and in each story , they write , their muse finds their own inspiration and the chain continues . With each word , with each typo or poor management of time , the story becomes the writers ’ own . Therefore , the film is not necessarily about a single story , but the act of storytelling itself .
This brings us back to the starting point , back to the end . Finding inspiration might as well be the hardest thing when it comes to the process of creating . However , as one manages to realize the beauty within the very act of searching for inspiration , one finds it right under his nose . Again , whether you chase inspiration or it chases you , it is clear that at the core of our beings , we have the desire to find or create at every chance we get .