How often do mistakes spark creativity?
Did you ever play that game where one person starts by whispering a phrase into someone’s ear, and the phrase is passed by whispering it from one person to the next – and it is very funny to see how the phrase gets distorted by the time it reaches the last person in line?
Well, I just had a similar visual experience. I was browsing online at CNN.com, and I read a headline out of the corner of my eye. It said…
“Satellites unearthed in ancient Egyptian ruins”
If course, it didn’t REALLY say that. It said “Satellites unearthing ancient Egyptian ruins”. But for a split second, my mind raced through a myriad of images and thoughts [some could have made a good prequel to AVP – others a sinister conspiracy theory].
The fact-checker part of my brain forced my eyeballs to re-read the headline. I was mistaken in what I had thought I read. And less than 3 seconds later I was back to what I was doing. If I was an author or a script-writer I would have been scribbling notes to myself. I’m not, so I didn’t [there are lots of things I DO scribble on napkins, though].
Was it a “spark of creativity”?
if you want to go down that path …
… it was … a new, sensual thought experience …
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