(re-post from 091007)
For some time now writing to me has seemed like pulling teeth. I sit down to write, and nothing comes out. An hour passes and the screen is still blank.
I have read alot on line about bloggers becoming post blocked, but have always just scoffed it off thinking, “How in the world could someone not have anything to write about?” well, now I know.
Recently I have been working late nights on some patentable ideas. I have 2 patents already, and I am working on my third for my current company.
While working on these idea’s I was pondering the whole inventing process, it occurred to me how similar the inventing and writing process is.
Look at some of the great inventors in the past; Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford. All of these men were brilliant inventors, as well as gifted writers.
Comparing inventing to writing, you can see that it all starts out with a basic idea; what do you want to write about? What do you want to invent? Each one solves a certain problem or need.
The invention is usually just a physical solution to a worldly need, where as writing fills the more spiritual, deep personal need to create which cannot be fulfilled by anything other than writing.
Take a moment yourself and invent something on your own, not with nails and a hammer or software or anything physical, write a story an article or a simple blog post.
Everything is invented, everything is manufactured in one way or another.
I would love to hear about your Ideas inventions or creativeness. Feel free to share in the comments below.
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Amazing. ” Necessity is the mother of invention.” I never really stopped and thought about that statement. If you need something, you will invent something to fulfill that need. I work in the injection molding field, mostly automotive. However, we have been doing a lot of non-automotive for a large quick production company that turns inventor dreams into reality in a week. I have done some of the most impossible things in the time alloted, and made some really intricate parts that I thought my big clumsy hands would not be able to do. Life is a lot like the high jump in the Olympics. (I had to tie the two in somehow). We train and train, we run and jump and clear the bar. Congratulations. Heres your medal. Heres your record, until someone who has trained a little harder and longer jumps higher than you. Now your old news. Get over it, or begin to train harder. As we go through life, we must examine the bars we have cleared and decide if we are satisfied with that, or do we train a little harder, and raise that bar just a little? Also, we should raise it as high as WE want to raise it. Ultimately YOU are going to have to live with the results of you life. Don’t let other people push their expectations onto your shoulders. Especially if your the one doing the jumping. Have a great day, and “run that ye may obtain”.
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