Creativity Comes Alive in Graveyards
How to stir your creative juices to a boiling brew
Anyone with a beating heart can get creative in a graveyard. I’m not referring to a fancy, unconventional burial of the dead. On the contrary. And make no mistake, this article is for the living.
I’m also not referring to couples who, for whatever urgent need, choose the seclusion of a graveyard (or memorial park or remembrance park) to do what they must. Talk, perhaps? Hold hands?
And not to be unsympathetic, I also am not referring to an unfortunate segment of society, the homeless, who might get creative and make a temporary “home” in an empty tomb.
Creatives — those of us who create, compose and are writing fiction for a living (there’s the word ‘living’ again) — can find our Muse in graveyards.
And not just any graveyard. The older the graveyard and its inhabitants are, the better.
A creative’s thrill in a graveyard
Solitude
We creative writers cannot coop ourselves up, day in and day out, plotting and writing and self-editing in the confines of our room. We need to get out, take in fresh air, get some sunshine weather permitting, and allow our creative juices to start bubbling into activity.
