During an interview with Lit Hub‘s The Literary Life podcast, Blitz Bazawule likens our creative minds to crop fields, noting that both need to be rotated to ensure longterm fertility.
Creative people loves stories and should be open to telling them in whatever form they take, he says. “We lock into a medium and media and it kind of dominates our creative and we feel every creative impulse has to be driven through this prism,” Bazawule says. Like a farmer rotates crops to ensure the health of the soil, creative people should change how they create to ensure their creativity has both challenge and rest.
“You know, when you create in one spot, it gets depleted,” Bazawule says. “It’s just nature. And at some point you’re going to find yourself heaving because you’re digging through the same well and it’s running dry and it’s great if you try other things. You’ll be amazed at how good you are at other things, because as human beings we’re a multiplicity of things and we should always take advantage of the multiplicity, mainly because when you come back to the thing, you come back with new eyes, you come back with new a new appreciation for it. You’re ever fresh.”
