Creativity in Literature
Creativity is a concept which has been studied with respect to different issues and phenomena. We've already dwelled upon the issue of creativity in several contexts, now the turn of literature has come.
The majority of people connect the notion of creativity to art and literature. Regarding literature, there's no shadow of a doubt that creativity here plays vital role as well. Unlike certain business projects, literary creativity requires sole originality, without relevance which is obligatory regarding advertising or any other professional field which requires creativity.
However, creativity is not the only thing which is needed to come up with a literary masterpiece. Now let's single out other important qualities that should be combined within the author's personality and skills in order his work to become worthy:
1. Talent. For talent and creativity are different things. Creativity implies original way of thinking and approach to problem-solving. Talent suggests more profound skills and is most likely an inborn gift while creativity is possible to develop.
2. Inspiration. Even creative people sometimes feel exhausted and run out of ideas. That's why creativity should be accompanied by fresh and shiny inspiration in order the creativeness to result in anything constructively respective.
3. Brilliant personality of the author. This brilliance may be of a quite controversial sense implying both positive and negative meanings. Usually all authors are characterized by uniquely brilliant personalities which suggest them being memorable if not unforgettable, genuinely unusual and attracting one's attention.
The latter point is optional since the very work attracts attention to personality of the author and makes up its brilliance if we are speaking of a true masterpiece that is.
Literature is impossible without creativity just as well as talent of the author subcontains creativity as its obligatory integral constituent part.
It's very essential to feel measure when it's about one's creativity in literature. Certainly, contemporary post-modernistic works suggest the unlimited avalanche of creativity which sometimes borders either with its overmeasured or pseudo 'sisters' or absurd and a slight hint at insanity of the author or the reader. It's very important to understand peculiarities of the genre when it's about defining or criticizing the level of certain authors' creativity.
Authors who in our view occasionally highly overused their creativity due to specific literary genre they worked in are: James Joyce, Murakami, Virginia Woolf and other human streams of consciousness and absurd.
In any case, so many creative approaches, so many their appreciators.