writing for pop music makes you feel like you're running around in a front yard but writing for film is feeling like you are running through a large open field. you are still running through both, but the freedom is more evident in the field.

mental landscapes are measured by cognitive conceptual markers not physical spaces. creativity comes from the power of limitations. there is a french term called bricolage which means using what is available to you to create. I find it much easier to navigate a mental landscape when I don't have the pieces in front of me ready to go. it is interesting to leave an element of creation to the fates..chaos. This allows a sense of creating something you have no idea you are creating. You discover what you are creating during the creation itself. this is why painting by numbers makes you feel so unfulfilled -- it doesn't reveal any subconcious material.