Words on Writing and Creating Creativity

Writing. It seems so easy when you feel creativity flowing right through you, and there are words swirling around inside you that need to be written. There are times when you have to stop whatever it is you're doing and let those words pour right out of you onto the paper. There are times when you start writing and cannot stop. You write things that don't make sense, and things that never made sense until now. Every emotion you've ever felt is depicted clear as crystal. You don't have to think. You just write.

And then... There are times when you need to write, so you sit down with pen and paper, or word document and keyboard. You sit anxiously waiting for something to come forth. And nothing does. Your mind is blank, and so remains your paper. What do you do during those times? How do you create creativity?

William Carlos Williams writes "prose has to do with the fact of an emotion; poetry has to do with the dynamisation of emotion into a separate form. This is the force of imagination."

How do you get your imagination going? Is it all based on emotion? Must I be feeling something to be writing something? Williams also writes that "nature is the hint to composition." We have the ability to create something new based on the most simple thing that we have witnessed. So how can the imagination run dry? It can't. You  just have to get out there and witness one small thing and create something wonderful from it.